What would happen if we took a bunch of foreign words, and gave them new meanings that seemed almost semi-plausible? You’d end up with this book!

A senior detective with the Lincolnshire police must juggle solving a fifty-year-old case involving the disappearance of a prize poodle during a magic show, along with his current busy caseload involving the death of a fish batterer, the derailment of a trainload of crystal balls, the suspicious incineration of an inventor, and the theft of a collection of rare porcelain leprechauns.