Vera Lawson is embroiled once again in the Polt family saga. The two paintings discovered in the crypt in the garden of the Saint-Pois house, have come under scrutiny from The Louvre Museum's top investigator, Dr. Lucille Thompson-McLeay. Are they real or forgeries? Dr Thompson-McLeay's unusual interrogation techniques, are causing problems with her employer - Interpol. Put under the protective services of dashing Naval Commando Master Sergeant Joseph Perrigaux, Lucille is keeping silent about her past life, but not before Vera Lawson discovers the real relationship regarding the family. Are the Polt family hiding the truth? Are the previous generation of Polt family members, guilty of crimes committed in World War One. Will the ghosts of Vera's past resurface and reveal the location of the Nazi horde? Or will Joseph Perrigaux and Vera's friend and confidante Timothy Ranstone intervene...