When the Dutch Patroon's nephew drops dead on Boston Common, it's up to two nosy Puritans, Hetty and Creasy, to uncork the killer in old Dutch Albany. Was it the merry widow, the Harvard-educated Mohawk, the jilted fiancée, the rival in land or the rival in love who doctored a dram and poisoned the poltroon? Hetty and Creasy resort to kidnapping and piracy on the High Hudson before the hijinks are hindered.