Professor Vlad Smith is on a terrifying quest, one that will take him from the halls of our most hallowed institutions to the most rundown of old houses in blighted neighborhoods. A mysterious committee, shredded yellowed newspapers, a daguerreotype of a Confederate soldier, a headless corpse, and a corpseless head....

These are the clues that Smith must piece together to save his sanity and his daughter and uncover the terrible secret of the Boss in the Wall.