Millicent Winthrop, an amateur sleuth, solves crimes while also dealing with her multiple personality disorder. The loves of her life include her psychiatrist, Dr. Alfredo Martolini, and her two pugs, Holmes and Watson. In this first book Millicent with the help of her employer, Mr. Buckminster Smythe, rescue a kidnapped soccer player from the very dangerous Vasolov Bugàr— a man with a deep-seated anger and vengeance against all things soccer.