Detective Inspector Jack Frost officially on duty is nevertheless determined to sneak off to a colleague's leaving party. But first the corpse of a well-known local junkie is found blocking the drain of a Denton public lavatory and then when Frost attempts to join the revels later on the nubile daughter of a wealthy businessman is reported missing. Sleepy Denton has never known anything like the crime wave which now threatens to submerge it. A robbery occurs at the town's notorious strip joint the Coconut Grove the pampered son of a local MP is suspected of a hit-and-run offence and to top it all a multiple rapist is on the loose. Frost is reeling under the strain his paperwork is still in arrears and now more than ever his self-righteous colleagues would love to see him sacked. But the manic Frost manages to assure his superior that all is under control. Now he has only to convince himself . . .
