It is only by chance that Ernie Bisquets picked the pocket of Lord Patterson Coats, current president of the East London Adventurers Club. But it was by design that he was then introduced into a world where his talents would be used for a greater good. By the time he realizes what is happening, the attempted theft of a Manet from the Musee d'Orsay, and the subsequent investigation, is unfolding around him. Murder and villainy are seldom far from the center of the inquiries of the East London Adventurers Club.