Beyond the swing doors of The Happy Thistle Restaurant lurks a sinister secret - the Highland themed eatery is a front for a mad professor hell-bent on world domination. Half way through constructing a domestic nuclear fission laboratory in the basement, his bitcoin reserves run dry leaving him with no alternative but to kidnap the daughter of a billionaire banker. Simple, I hear you say . . . or maybe not. To put it mildly, the best laid plans of mice and men gang aft agley.
Taken from the second of The Prendergast of The Yard Casebook series, this short story features wordplay and zany characters similar to those found in the sixth of the Stoat Hall Legacy Book Club short stories, The Curious Case of the Kitnapped Cat, and the full length novel, Elliefant's Graveyard - The Curious Case of the Throatslit Man, now available on Amazon with an audiobook on Audible.