' So there I was, helping this old lady who was locked out of this car....'

' You look quite nice in your uniform, dear, but there must be far better openings in wholesale fish.'

Not only has the jewellery gone, but where the devil is the jeweller? And why is that strange policewoman looking at me like that? 

Rosie finds that a nodding acquaintance with the criminal classes can have its advantages when confronted by the dreaded future in-laws. 

Rosie! What a nickname for a policeman. Still, PC Penrose has got more problems than that when he returns to his home town on a compassionate posting and finds his life complicated by the pressures from his invalid mother, an old girlfriend and the responsibilities of settling in to a new police station with new colleagues - and is that police informer really going to further his career?