In September 1977 when the lead singer and creative force of 'Wheelspin' walks out the rock band falls apart and becomes just another briefly famous and largely forgotten casualty of the pop music scene.
In the same month, a Soviet diplomat is killed in a hit and run incident on a London street.
Five months later a young man falls to his death from a north London roadbridge.
These events are revealed as Martin and Anna Price search for the owner of a security box held by a Swiss bank. Whether they have a bearing on their investigation is unclear but it becomes apparent that they are not the only ones interested in the whereabouts of the former band member named Jase. A trail of duplicity and avarice commencing in the pop music world of the nineteen-seventies comes to light as the husband and wife team follow a number of leads which they hope will also reveal the whereabouts of one of the long missing Faberge Imperial Eggs.