A corpse - a very special corpse - goes missing from Highgate Cemetery, and our three heroes are expecting big money for the distinguished bod: Karl Marx, no less, for sale to interested Russian bidders. But soon the police everywhere are after them as they make for the handover, opting for Dusseldorf's 'Little Paris' to hide their prize. At Karneval time, Mr Marx will go unnoticed amid the costumed revellers, drunken Rhinelanders and Altbier-swilling oddballs.

Enter Gennady Moblomov, ex-Soviet diplomatic thug. He wants Karl for Mother Russia. Enter too the leather-clad colonic irrigatress...