A Chief Inspector Pointer Mystery! When Sergeant Peel, a Scotland Yard detective goes missing while on special duty on the coast of Suffolk, Chief Inspector Pointer dispatches private inquiry agent Hugh Duncan to investigate. Duncan fails to find the detective, but almost immediately discovers a body buried in the sand by the shore as well as evidence of a smuggling operation. Trying to determine if Peel's disappearance related to the murder, Duncan soon finds himself embroiled in a much more complicated affair involving Arab politics and a long lost treasure as he investigates a . . . Murder in Suffolk!