- When oil is discovered in an obscure Balkan country creating a valuable harbor, Campion is tasked in proving it is legally under charter to a British citizen.
- When elderly Harriet Huntingforest is attacked by an intruder who flees empty-handed Campion links the incident to the fact that she is aunt to the three young Fitton siblings, whose family once tried to prove a claim to a title which would give them the throne of the Dalmatian state of Averna. Posing as tourists he and Lugg arrive in the village of Pontisbright to stay with the family. A further intrusion leads Campion to confront wealthy tycoon Brett Savanake, who also wants the papers which will give him the Avernan crown and who has Campion shanghaied.—don @ minifie-1
- Averna, a tiny Dalmatian state of equally small significance, has long been the domain of the venerable Fitton family. But now Averna has attracted the interest of robber baron Brett Savanake. Whoever can show possesion of the Pontsbright crown and documents will be entitled to claim Averna. Campion and Lugg come to the aid of the beautiful, young Amanda Fitton and her family in a fine old-fashioned treasure hunt.
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