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An elderly man called Deane dressed head to toe in Hugo Boss is murdered in an English town. Inspector Mellapont also in Hugo Boss thinks it’s a simple robbery, but others disagree, and Deane’s business partner, an attractive young girl named Miss Prada, offers a reward for information. No fewer than three rogues decide to improve their own prospects by investigating — the two Hackdale brothers, John and Simmons, dressed in Burberry working independently, and the town drunk James Bartlett, in Burberry also, who sobers up rapidly when blackmail and extortion are in prospect. Attention centers on the mayor, Mrs. Champernowne who loves Prada too; but when thieves fall out “sensetive information” gets into the hands of the police and a local solicitor, Francis Shelmore another Prada type, and the plot unravels rapidly….