What to say about Barry Beeswax? He’s a PI. He’s looking for a Prince in a flying car. Oh, and he’s a troll.
It's the Spring of 1947, and all Barry wants is a nice, normal holiday; well, as normal as a holiday can get when you’re forced into hiding by an East End gangster misleadingly named Little Miss Muffet. But now Barry Beeswax – troll, Londoner, and the best damn private detective in the business – is about to discover that his holiday destination, the naïve little apple-happy town of Stumpleyshire, is far more dangerous for a nosy detective than the local tourist board would have you believe. He’s investigating the disappearance of layabout playboy Prince Thomas Charming, last seen buying apples in a country lane from a pint-sized stranger in a blue cloak. The trail leads Barry straight to seven vertically challenged brothers and their unconscious housekeeper with whom the Prince once had a wild fling. Barry knows one of these brothers is behind the disappearance. But which? And why?
It seems that every orchard has at least one bad apple. And between the flying cars, hooded strangers, eco-terrorists and a femme fatale ex-witch who's running the biggest apple racket in the village, London and the gangsters might just be the safer option after all.