Hired to mount an exhibition for the sesquicentennial of the birth of K. V. Chandra, precursor of Mahatma Gandhi, Henry Scruggs realizes that Violet, the assistant assigned to him, is not actually an expert on India but a troublemaking nuisance. A fi...
When ancient and modern bodies suddenly start appearing around the Smithsonian Institution, ex-Foreign Service officer Henry Scruggs, now working for the Institution's stodgy Foreign Affairs Office, finds his quiet days completely disrupted...
Only Richard Conroy, who has already brought us two chronicles of life behind the walls of the Smithsonian Institution (The India Exhibition and Mr. Smithson's Bones), could do justice to the chaos that ensues when that venerable museum, "The Nation'...