Barrie Craig turns down a case to look for a woman’s missing husband of 6 years so that she may get remarried in order to work on a case to find a missing manuscript. The prize-winning book manuscript The Cry of the Hyenia< by Eric Trent has been stolen right out of publisher Hilary Grayson’s office and it was the only copy, the author has no carbon duplicate. Trent is a brilliant eccentric who won $50,000 for his novel. In solving one case he inadvertently solves the other.