Having pursued a fruitless lead to Shanghai, then Germany involving a pop star called Geegee Spank and a dubious record producer Shmorgen Horgenshlong, Hal got an email from missing student Hilary, apparently captive in a basement.

It was time to meet the Welsh woman with all the answers – Mysterious Linda.

When an American student vanishes into thin air, no one seems to notice, or even care. Is she on the run? Has she been kidnapped? Or is something more sinister, even paranormal, at play? Ignored by the police, shrugged off by neighbours, it falls to one man, a friend she knew online, to track her down.