Bognor of the Special Investigations Branch of Department of Trade is called in when a honey manufacturer's trade secrets are passed to a rival concern from the Middle East, and agent Collingdale has been murdered.
Bognor, investigating industrial espionage among honey manufacturers, is warned off the case. Girlfriend Monica stays at a hotel.
Bognor investigates the connections between the friars and a local MP, while Monica tries to keep his boss in the dark.
Bognor investigates the friars of Beaubridge Priory.
Bognor tries to prevent further documents being smuggled out of the country.
Bognor makes an inspired deduction and may have solved the case of industrial espionage among honey manufacturers in the nick of time.
After the murder of a newspaper editor, Bognor is sent undercover to his press room to try and find his killer.
While nursing a nasty bruise, Bognor has to find his nightly assailant, find the clue in an ominous poem, and deal with a suspicious journalistic union official.
Bognor gets drunk at a political party event and meets up with an old Oxford pal. Meanwhile, Port gets into a fight with Gringe after Gringe accuses him of being a Russian spy.
Bognor follows Gringe to a rundown motel while Monica helps him solve the dying man's poetic clue with the help of a painting and the 1932 edition of the Wisden's Cricketer's Almanac.
A drunken debacle at a rugby game leads to Bognor having a revealing heart-to-heart with Eric Gringe. Meanwhile, Monica begins suspecting he's having an affair with Molly.
Flanders arrests his prime suspect, but Bognor, who's just survived a poisoning attempt, suspects the secret behind the killer's true identity may be in a secret merger agreement.
Bognor is assigned to investigate a dog smuggling ring after the mysterious death of a prize-winning poodle.
With his chief informant down with rabies, Bognor travels to the countryside where he tries to find the corpse of the dog he suspects was murdered.
Rose turns up murdered after meeting with Bognor and Coriander reveals she's a double agent for the C.I.A. - the Canine Information Agency.
Chased out of the countryside by a grumpy police inspector, Bognor travels to Denmark where he hopes to find a missing dog who can identify a certain brand of chewing gum by taste alone.
Bognor sets a fiendish trap for the dog smugglers.
Bognor travels to America where he unmasks the dog smugglers but soon finds himself being chased by a pack of specially bred hounds in his underwear.
Bognor is assigned a safe job, trying to sell restaurateurs the idea of nationally subsidized restaurants. But his safe job turns very unsafe after one of these restaurateurs turns up dead and somehow the KGB and the CIA are involved.
As chefs and chief suspects continue dying under mysterious circumstances, Bognor finds himself in compromising positions with a promiscuous lady and being threatened by a professional cricket player.
Bognor realises that the entire conspiracy revolves around wine, food guides, and industrial espionage and that the clue he needs to blow the whole thing wide open is in the raspberries.