Set in Athens, 1913, the capital of a country on the brink of war The new Greek prime minister, Venizelos, tired of the Ottoman overlords, has what he calls the Great Idea - a vision of a new Greece which unites all the Greek people scattered around the Mediterranean Not such a great idea, in the view of other countries, among them Britain, which believes in letting sleeping dogs lie And cats Including the one recently poisoned in Athens and which belonged to the exiled former Sultan Unfortunately, as is the way with the Balkans, rumours start flying around one being that this was a sighting shot for the ex-Sultan himself Such gossip could start a war Something has to be done Enter Seymour, of the CID, who has had some experience of this sort of thing before