A Poetic Goat Mystery: The Problem with Tardiness: 1

Book One: The Problem with Tardiness "We need to get amongst it." A woman dies in Wales. The paperwork does not add up. Red and Jacks are called in on what looks like a routine misfile, and within a week are up to their necks in a case that nobody above them wants investigated and nobody below them is allowed to touch. A fourth-century memo. A sealed atrium. A Prince of Lust on professional secondment. A seventy-year-old demon taking early retirement into a Stockport-Elsewhere cottage he isn't supposed to qualify for. A landlady on Old Compton Street who knows more than she is saying and pours a better pint than anyone has a right to expect. By the end of the week, Red's team have discovered that Heaven has been quietly running on a clerical error for four millennia, the error is about to catch up with everyone, and the only room in London with the standing to house the response is the back bar of a pub called the Poetic Goat. Book One opens the case. The case does not, on balance, close.