There is now a new broom at Scotland Yard Nimrod Frost His first 'little job' for Lestrade is to investigate the reported appearance of a lion in Cornwall, a supposed savager of sheep and a frightener of men - hardly a task for an Inspector of the Criminal Investigations Department Yet even as Lestrade questions a witness, a man is reported dead, horrifically mauled He solves the case and returns to London Then there is another suspicious deathand another