The drug mafia under the direction of its boss Don Carmello has come up with a clever trick. It recently declared its drug deliveries as commercial deliveries of goods and insured them at Lloyds. So the mafia even gets their money when the couriers are caught by the police. The insurance does not taste that, of course, after all, she has her reputation to lose.
Jack Clementi, reading the newspaper, learns that there is an imitation of the precious Etruscan goldsmith’s masterpiece ‘The laughing girl’. The article says that the piece belongs to the Houston Museum to which the deceased Texan billionaire and collector Jim Carlson donated it. But Jack knows that the precious statuette belongs to the feudal lords of Roccaferro who have kept it for two hundred years in the castles museum, with an insurance guaranty from Lloyd’s for 800,000 sterling pounds.
Former movie star Susy Kaminsky is up to her eyes in gambling debts. She offers her famous jewelry to the owner of the gambling den, but unfortunately the jewels get lost on their way. As if this wasn’t enough, Susan’s personal servant is found death. As the lost cuff links had a big insurance at Lloyd’s International, Jack Clementi is in charge of the investigation. He is thrilled about the idea of working for Susy, even if the case is not so easy to solve.
A disastrous weapon was stolen from a governmental producing facility. Jack Clementi gets called by the insurer Lloyds to investigate the crime. They hope to prevent a mass panic or even worse. While investigating Jack Clementi gets away from attempted murder and has to learn separate false stories from true ones. Time pressure and sudden fatalities increase the level of difficulty.
Lloyd’s has paid one and a half million pounds to the Carco Security transportation company for the assault of an armored van full of gold ingots. Now, after fifteen years, Lloyd’s hopes to get back the loot by putting a detective after Paul Gaudin, one of the authors of the robbery, who will soon be out of prison. Unfortunately, Gaudin kills another prisoner and gets other twenty years on prison. The firm gives Big Man the case, and with the authorities’ help, he fakes an arrest and ends up in prison.
Winterbottom calls Big Man at Lloyd’s International headquarters to entrust him a new research. In the last two years, Lloyd’s has been giving premiums for several thousand millions to the families of insured people who have died only a few months after having stipulated their policies. As Jack Clementi reaches Munich, he meets captain Kraus who sets him on the track of a German builder, Merkl, who is in big financial trouble.
