The rather disgruntled pair of Tommy and Tuppence are sequestered in the Grand Adlington Hotel, having made a pigs ear out of their latest case. But, while mournfully sipping cocktails, with Tommy oddly dressed as a parson, they are gleefully accosted by their old acquaintance Mr. Bulger, who has Londons most beautiful stage actress, Gilda Glen, in tow. Featherbrained and a little confused, Gilda takes Tommy for a real clergyman and scrawls out a desperate note to meet him away from the hotel. While Tommy and Tuppence mull over the note, in storms an old flame of Gildas, claiming he wants to wring someones neck. When the duo turn up at the meeting place, all hell breaks loose.