Dido thinks she's onto a good thing when a colleague offers to let her take the big deal he's been offered. The seller is the ex-lover of a famous poet, and wants to let Dido handle the sale of her collection - which includes some wonderful documents as well as valuable first editions. But then things start to go wrong: the house burns down, Dido is accused of theft, and she's the obvious suspect when a murder occurs. It's only with the help of her father that she manages to stay out of jail at all...