Lucy Meeson-Smith works at a big bookmakers and always manages to back the winners. Her employers become suspicious and take her to court for fraud. At her trial it is revealed that her father, a vicar, studies forms avidly and is a brilliant tipster (though he himself is not a betting man). The judge in the case, Mr. Justice Painswick, is most intrigued by the evidence. His own personal life is complicated by his son, a thoroughgoing cad who is deeply in debt. Find out how these personalities are brought together in a lively and unexpected way in this witty, upbeat novel.