When someone kills several wizards in the Wizards' library the tensions of the city of Khoma rise. The fact that the crime was committed in the goblin side of the city and that some of the body parts are missing leads to accusations of goblins having been involved. It is up to the Watch, the security force in the goblin shanty town where the library is located to find the killers. But after the human police force pushes them off the case, only a small contingent of the Watch searches for the true killers in an attempt to get a pardon for one of their own for a killing he is accused of having...