John Braemhor, a private investigator who has served as a member of the Rhodesian constabulary and later as a civil servant in South Africa, is attempting to settle into retirement running a B&B in Daraichburn in the Scottish lowlands. However, his keen sense of justice and his inordinately skilled deductive powers continually draw him back into investigative criminology as unusual situations cross his path. Along with his wife, Mary, John finds himself...