Lucille Abbey, the director of a London-based secretarial agency, inquires into the dismissal of her three most efficient secretaries by absent-minded Professor Hallam and finds that the professor is eccentric--even impossible. She decides to stay on to tame and organize him and even grows fond of him. Then a debonair French art expert arrives in search of paintings left to the professor by his mother, followed by a hysterical girl on the track of her runaway fiancé. The paintings have unaccountably disappeared. The mystery is still unsolved when Lucille's work with the professor comes to an end and she leaves for a holiday in Paris. But when the art expert, the hysterical girl, the professor, and a persistent suitor to boot all show up in Paris, Lucille's normally orderly life is thrown into complete chaos.-- Adapted from back cover.