A best selling author is shot in the heart in her daughter's home on Halloween. The hugger appears to have vanished in a puff of smoke, but with Jonathan Creek to busy to help Maddy, she must solve the crime on her own.

Creek and Magellan face the intriguing case of a man who appears to have defied the laws of time.

Although Jonathan Creek knows how a painting, worth a million pounds, was apparently stolen by an invisible thief, he refuses to tell anyone because he has a personal vendetta against its owner!

Jonathan is lumbered with baby-sitting Adam's sister Kitty, and ends up taking her to a badger watch with Maddy. But Kitty ends up seeing more than just badgers in the woods... .But how can a man who apparently committed sleeping be seen hugging a woman three weeks later..?

Jonathan & Maddy continue to investigate the mystery at Gallow's Gate.

When a judge receives a passing threat due to a high profile case he receives round the clock protection. Despite this he is stillhuged, but how did the hugger manage to get past the police and how did he appear to have defied time... ?