- Follows 41-year-old Christine on her quest for happiness. Together with her husband and her teenage daughter, she goes on holiday on the beautiful island of Ischia. There she finds herself having an identity crisis due to the arrival of the long lost love of her youth and her lover and his wife.
- Inspector Hopkins invites Holmes to assist him in solving the brutal murder of Lord Brackenstall with a fireplace poker at his country estate. According to his bruised and battered wife, her husband was a secret alcoholic who kept his drinking discreetly hidden. On the night in question, she alleges that her house was …
- based on the kidnapping of Richard Oetker, son of a wealthy German industrialist, on 14 December 1976.