The story is told in the first person from the perspective of one of the friends. The other friend doing the bulk of the amateur detective work. The police hardly feature in the story indeed.
The characters are interesting, if rather eccentric in the case of the Professor and the plot a good one but everything takes an age to happen. The story covers some fifteen or so years and sometimes it feels like that reading it. Ultimately the interesting plot and slightly unusual story form wins the day, especially as it heavily involves archaeology.
