Robin returns to Great Slaughter as super model Birdie, where she again sees her childhood friend WPC Peggy and her mother, with whom she has a difficult relationship. While there, her manager, Max, winds up dead.
Convinced that events catastrophic to the Cold War are being planned at the British Open Chess Championships, Sister Boniface must brush up her chess skills and join the tournament.
Felix is Police Advisor on set of the latest "Oh - Do Behave!" picture. Felix is soon called to action to investigate the murder of the abrasive director Sexton St Juste.