Beyond the swing doors of The Happy Thistle Restaurant lurks a sinister secret - the Highland themed eatery is a front for a mad professor hell-bent on world domination. Half way through constructing a domestic nuclear fission laboratory in the basement, his bitcoin reserves run dry leaving him with no alternative but to borrow up to and beyond the hilt from notorious loan sharks, The Proust Mob, pledging four nuclear centrifuges and a domestic hadron collider as security. When the Prousts demand their money back with three hundred percent interest, he instructs his Scottish chef, Groaty McTavish, to kidnap the daughter of a billionaire banker. Simple, I hear you say . . . or maybe not. To put it mildly, the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley. All is revealed in The Happy Thistle – The Curious Case of the Katenapped Girl.
Cover illustration by Amelie Ahern-Williams

This abridged version of the second of The Prendergast of The Yard Casebooks is a tribute to the late, great Sherlock Holmes. To find out more about the series, read Elliefant’s Graveyard, The Curious Case of The Throatslit Man, published on Amazon in late May 2024.