While investigating a councilman's murder with Kling and Carella, Fat Ollie's manuscript for a novel he is writing is stolen from a briefcase in his car.

After finishing a murder investigation, Fat Ollie Weeks discovers that his car has been broken into and the manuscript for his new crime novel stolen, sending him on a mission of vengeance to catch the culprit.

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Ollie's life work is his novel. Just when it's ready to be released to the general populace, the one and only manuscript disappears, leaving Ollie to head off in pursuit of the thief. A thief who is convinced that Ollie's work contains the secret location of a hoard of hidden diamonds.

Sixteen-year-old Lara, winner of beauty pageants and Homecoming Queen, is distressed and bewildered when she starts gaining weight and becomes a fat girl.