The lecturer is. Dead

Terrie Cotta first and only golem in the police forces is sent out into Little Hempton to be taken out of the limelight when she fails to arrest an art thief gang taking her confidence with them. With luck her blunder will wash over in hundred years.

Its soon dashes when Louis Teapot a ruthless business woman is murdered in her study at Teapot Manor and no evidences of how she was poisoned may test her already shattered confidences.