Deep beneath Wetherby-on-Mere Town Hall lies the Department of Lost Things. For disgraced curator Arthur Pike and his eccentric team, cataloguing stuffed owls and stray umbrellas is a quiet sort of exile.
Until the Mayor vanishes, replacing his ceremonial chain with a scanned photograph.
Suddenly, Arthur is plunged into a fifty-year-old art heist involving a hidden masterpiece, Belgian operatives, and a rogue volunteer who knows everyone's secrets. It all culminates at the annual civic gala?an absolute triumph of catastrophic proportions featuring a melted ice sculpture, an apricot-conserve lake, and a highly combative swan. Finding the truth has never been so delightfully chaotic.
