It all started with a wild canary. For what reporter Mac McFarland had thought was a rare Spinus tristus bird turned out to be a yellow Volkswagen, half-submerged in the water near the Cape Cod beach where presidential-hopeful Dolph Bridges happen...
Invited by old flame Bitsy Binford to visit her Cape Cod estate, Mac McFarland stumbles upon the corpse of Bitsy's son-in-law, Peter, a discovery that embroils Mac in a tangled web of dark secrets, greed, scandal, and murder...