Marjorie Doubleday está convencida de que su nuera es una mala madre. Cuando el bebé es secuestrado de su cochecito afuera de la juguetería de los Doubleday, las sospechas recaen sobre un grupo de hippies que se ha apoderado del abandonado Featherstone Hall y ha tenido un enfrentamiento con la Sra. Doubleday. Al mismo tiempo, Graham Collins informa que su esposa Sarah está desaparecida. Sarah desea desesperadamente tener un bebé, pero no puede concebir y han discutido al respecto. Greengrass está entrenando a su nuevo caballo de carreras en High Street en Aidensfield y Blaketon quiere que se detenga. Eso es más fácil de decir que de hacer.

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...