Brian Cahill, a British investment banker, made 16 reasonably uneventful business trips to Bangkok. On the 17th he came home in a box. The Thai authorities say he died of natural causes, but there are a lot of pieces missing from their story - such as the fact Brian's body had been hacked open with a meat cleaver. Scotland's Inspector Ian McLean and his associates Sally Chan and Thomas McMillan are dispatched to Thailand to solve the mystery. Their best leads are a dead bar girl and the baby she left behind, but in the dark recesses of the Patpong bar district absolutely nothing is what it seems. "A Memory of Elephants" is the sixth book in the popular Inspector McLean Mystery series by David W. Rudlin.