Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, Inspector Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showing adult entertainment movies. Shorter is convinced that one particular scene in a movie he recently saw was too realistic to have been staged with fake blood, but when Pascoe starts investigating, he soon comes across the actress in question, Linda Abbott, who obviously didn't suffer from any harm and assures Pascoe that his and Shorter's concerns are unnecessary.
During a visit to his dentist Jack Shorter, Peter Pascoe is told about porn movie shown, at the Calliope Club, where the actress appeared to be too realistically beaten. Before any case develops, Shorter is accused of under age sex.
Jack Shorter is beaten up in his own surgery after accusations of sexual impropriety made by Sandra Burkill but Pascoe learns that she is no stranger to porn films. A fire at the Calliope Club is an excuse to re-open the investigation.
When it is discovered that star Linda Abbott is dead the search is on for the snuff movie "Droit de Seigneur" Brian Burkill is out for revenge when he discovers nude pictures of his 13-year-old daughter's are linked to Godfrey Blengdale.
