Scottish police inspector Jim Taggert, brilliantly played by Mark McManus, has already proven his competence to millions of viewers of the television series of the same name. Now writer Peter Cave introduces the famous detective's investigative methods. The murder investigation begins with the discovery of two skulls during the construction of a new road. Inspector Taggert is trying to establish a connection between the skulls and the theft of poisonous snakes from the laboratory of a pharmaceutical company. Translation taken from The text of the book was translated from the original language using an artificial intelligence program. For the most part, the translation of the text is of very high quality, but in some cases, due to the imperfection of the technology, there may be incorrect phrase translations in the text, as well as single words and expressions may not be translated.