The burglar, nicknamed Yeshwant after a Hindu lizard god by the newspapers, demonstrates remarkable climbing skills.

The next day Ghote rejoins Axel to learn the big Swedish man has been frightened by the urban legend of "The Kidney Heist".

Axel is surprised by the deferential treatment Ghote gives to the victim and comments afterward that a witness would be handled differently in Sweden.

Later they meet Pinkie, the journalist who gave the cat burglar the nickname "Yeshwant", who is keen to get new information from Ghote.

Mrs Masbahn says she bought the ring from Karamdas and Sons, at the urging of her lover, a drunken poet named Bottlewalla.

The couple quarrelled over where to buy the ring, with her favouring Karamdas and Sons and he Pappubhai Chimanlal and Company.

Mr Chimanlal tells them his secretary, Miss Cooper, is the only member of staff beside himself who knows the details of every transaction to take place in the store.

Outside, Axel deduces the only other person out who might know all the transactions carried out at the jewellers is Mr Pappubhai Chimanlal's wife.

Investigating the murder of Anil Ajmani without orders, Ghote requests Pinkie's assistance in trailing Mr Masters, the chief of security.

Together they go to interview Mr Masters, only to find that Pinkie has arrived first and accidentally alerted him, who has taken all his property and vacated his secret hideaway.

Ghote and Axel visit Ivy Cooper, whose father they hope may have information about a club they believe Masters belongs to.

Miss Cooper knows that Victor Hinks left his wife and children, who live near the railway station.

Breaking and Entering is a chalk and cheese story, with two radically different detectives being partnered together and assigned solve a difficult case that requires insights from both of them.

"[3] The Daily Telegraph review said: "As fresh and as entertaining as ever, an amazing 35 years since his first appearance"[citation needed] The Observer newspaper called the book: "A delight"[citation needed] Axel Svensson first appeared in The Perfect Murder, the first novel in H. R. F. Keating's Inspector Ghote series.