When his cousin Kat disappears from Enderby Manor, Frankie Dupont jumps on the case. Bumbling Inspector Cluesome thinks Kat simply wandered off, but Frankie isn't buying it.

He follows the evidence trail to a conniving concierge, a six-fingered chef, a talking parrot, a mad maid, and a shifty dwarf ... and quickly finds himself in a desperate race to recover Kat before her time runs out ...