A young boy is late to school and he dreads having to go the office to get a late slip from the school secretary.

A mild-mannered secretary changes her image and makes her dreams come true when she takes her talented birds on "Amateur Hour."

"Singapore, 1936, and the Crown Colony is agog with the news of King Edward VIII's abdication to marry American heiress Wallis Simson. Chen Su Lin, now Chief Inspector Le Froy's secretarial assistant in Singapore's newly formed detective unit, still dreams of becoming a journalist and hopes to cover the story when the Hon Victor Glossop announces he is marrying an American widow of his own, Mrs Nicole Covington, in the Colony. But things go horribly...