As ever, Rick is in a pickle. Instead of getting his hands on some new information, he bumps into his old foe Nyctalope literally. And, of course, he's alone and unarmed. Unimpressed, his boss sends him out to investigate a mysterious murder in Paris's Luxembourg Gardens which turns out to be a series of mysterious murders. The trail leads to a left-wing magazine called "Mad" whose reporters are mad enough to target Rick himself. Meanwhile, there's Nyctalope to deal with (again)... Is the nearest Rick will get to a front-page story seeing his own picture splashed across it?