Following the adventures of Quite Ugly One Morning, the storyline finds Parlabane living in domestic bliss and about to get married.

Set against mounting dissatisfaction with the Tory government of John Major, disquiet intensifies when conservative tabloid media mogul Roland Voss is found murdered in his country house in Scotland.

The culprits appear to be the burglars, covered in blood, caught fleeing the scene.

Four men are arrested for the crime, including former thief Thomas McInnes, his son Paul, and a man who goes by the name of "Spammy".

Why did McInnes pay a visit to his Edinburgh lawyer, Nicole Carrow, a few days before the crime took place, and what are the secret contents of the envelope he left with her?