Dorothy and Alan investigate when a body is discovered at the bottom of an elevator shaft during an art department party at Sherebury University and the killer shows signs of striking again., Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired police detective Alan Nesbitt, attend the Sherebury University art department's cocktail party, but the evening turns sour when, while the partygoers are on a tour of the sculpture department, the lift breaks downevealing a corpse at the bottom of the elevator shaft.