What could be worse than a foolish king? Only a king-experimenter! The one who constantly generates utterly insane ideas and makes the palace residents carry them out. And now our restless Majesty has decided that his palace absolutely needs a newspaper—since it’s not enough that it can get all the gossip and rumors. The task of leading this unique publication was entrusted to me, Monika Mansfield, granddaughter of the queen-mother’s beloved lady-in-waiting, and—by coincidence—graduate of the Faculty of Elegant Literature at the Royal Noble Boarding School. So then, don’t complain if, at the king’s request, during the preparation I get tangled up in an investigation of an abduction, acquire strange employees and even stranger protectors, and manage to prevent the theft of an priceless artifact. As they say: “If you didn’t hide, it’s not my fault”!