The Serious Freud Office is the result of the first, bungled, attempt to create the Serious Fraud Office.
When the bronze door plaque is mis-spelt financial pressures and potential political embarrassment cause higher powers to run with new spelling, so 'Freud' it is!
Thus is the art crime department for the nation born...
And when most of the Met are moved on to pastures new, the original SFO remains with its plaque in Great Scotland Yard off Whitehall.
Which suits Inspector Ernest Balthazar Moncrieff, connoisseur of 'proper' London and lover of top-deck bus journeys just fine...
...until the media invade his ivory tower and force him to confront his failure to bring the serial art thief to book!
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