When Sheriff Bud Shumway gets a call to fly into Utah's remote and mysterious Maze District to help recover the body of a man wearing a tuxedo, he has no idea that it's only the beginning of a series of strange happenings, from a missing symphony orchestra to a ragtag boatman who seems to be from the long-ago past.

Throw in a strange UFO-like aircraft, a group of pirates terrorizing rafters, a cafe that goes missing, an oboe case with an unfinished Beethoven manuscript and cryptic message, a mountain lion looking in people's windows, cinnamon toothpicks, Mayor Howie's stolen RV, and a stranger asking too many questions-and who could ask for more intrigue and adventure in Utah's high desert?