We have not one, not two, but three consulting detectives working with one of the city's most respected Inspectors on one of the most brutal and grotesque cases they've ever seen. A man has been murdered in a rather unconventional way. He was stuffed into a washing machine and washed to death. But wait! Why was he dressed as a woman? What does a physics professor have to do with it? And, above all, what is a children's colouring book doing at a murder scene?