Donald Lam, private investigator, and Elsie Brand, his secretary, were enjoying a coffee break (with the snorting permission of his partner Bertha Cool) when the man appeared. He seemed aimless until he spotted Donald—but men of such obvious affluence are seldom, if ever, aimless...

Mr. Nicholas Baffin was no exception, and he was being blackmailed. It was to be a one-off payment, but no self-respecting blackmailer would ever settle for that. Lam isn't exactly sure what Baffin's game really is—and he turns out to be a very tricky customer indeed...