The police are on the lookout for stolen Russian icons which have been unloaded in or around Whitby from a fishing boat owned by Ingmar Larsen who is currently in prison for smuggling and violence. The captain of the boat claims he thought they were smuggling cigarettes and that they were ambushed by pirates just off shore. They recover one of the icons at an antique shop, and the owner tells PC Walker that he bought it from a blonde woman in her thirties. Lord Ashfordly is having a banquet for true gourmets. Vernon Scripps quite the right idea when he learns about truffles from the Italian Giovanni Viora, but he thinks the price is somewhat on the high side and decides to go looking for them himself. To find them you need a pig, but in lack one of those Alfred will have to do. And then of course you also need a truffle...

Ralph Spurling ha sido robado y quiere que Oscar Blaketon descubra qué empleado del hotel en el que se hospedaba está involucrado en el robo. PC Wetherby ayudó a Lesley Ashton en un caso en Northallerton y ahora ella está obsesionada con él y aparece en Ashfordly con una maleta. Cuando él la rechaza, ella lo acusa de atropellarla con su coche. Bernie Scripps va a ver a Iris Grocott para cobrar su tarifa por el funeral de su esposo y ella lo sorprende invitándolo a cenar y no acepta un no por respuesta. Se registran en el mismo hotel que Blaketon está investigando con la ayuda de Alf Ventress. Y en el departamento romántico las cosas se están calentando entre la enfermera Cassidy y el doctor Oakley.