- With the intervention of Mr. Parker Pyne, a retired major finds love and adventure helping a young lady to find a very precious African treasure.
- Bored with civilian life ex-colonial officer John Wilbraham answers Mr. Parker Pyne's advert to provide him with an adventure and shortly afterwards finds himself saving Freda Clegg from abduction. Freda's late father owned a treasure map and a bogus solicitor will stop at nothing to get it. John and Freda find themselves tied up in a rapidly flooding basement from which he rescues them both. Of course the whole scenario has been created by novelist Ariadne Oliver,who is on Parker Pyne's staff to provide adventures. But is there really treasure or will true love be its own reward?—don @ minifie-1
- Major John Wilbraham has recently returned to England from Kenya after retiring from the army. He's not settling well to English village life however and has quickly become bored. He sees an ad in the newspaper from Parker Pyne and sets off to see what the consultant might be able to do for him. Pyne sees his as a straightforward case and for a fee of £50 - refundable in the event of non-satisfaction - he assures an adventure within six weeks. Pyne uses an adventure devised by his friend, the author Ariadne Oliver and Wilbraham soon meets Freda Clegg who may have in her possession a map to a fortune in elephant ivory. The map is stolen and their attempts to retrieve it put them in danger, or so they think. They have a rollicking adventure and soon find themselves happily in Wilbraham's beloved Kenya.—garykmcd
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