Publisher's Synopsis
"A Franciscan friar, serving in Spanish California suffers a very unpleasant death. Poisoning by the natives is suggested. A paranoid search for the poisoner sets up a dramatic series of events, accusations, imprisonment and conflict (the foregoing facts documented historical happening) between two of the main characters of the story. Ultimately Father Francis Ibarra, the main character, through some assiduous medical sleuthing proves that murder was in fact not the cause of death." --.
