A cryptic phone call from a police detective in Germany caused Pinky to contact Bear and Flo so they could keep his client from being extradited to Germany for murder. His client was accused of strangling a used book store owner to get a first edition of Martin Luther's Achtliederbuch-a book published in 1524-a book all experts agree no longer exists. As Pinky burns through a couple more legal secretaries, he directs Bear and Flo, "Go to Nuremberg and find someone, anyone, who had the motive, means, and opportunity to murder the book store owner." To which Bear replies, "Boss, let me get this straight. We fly to Germany to find a patsy, and then we frame him so the German cops think that the patsy, not your client, murdered the dead dude. Right?" Bear's apt observation kicks off the mystery that takes Pinky, Bear, and Flo from the peaceful California town of Pacific Grove to Nuremberg, Germany-the city where Hitler told his Nazi party followers that his Third Reich would last a thousand years.