All North Pole Detective John McCandycane wants to do is reconcile with his estranged wife, singing sensation Holly Dolly Partridge Innapeartree. Unfortunately it is his bad luck to arrive on Christmas Eve just as a band of crazed misfit toys takes over the brand new toy workshop of Santa, the 40-story high-rise, Santatomi Plaza.

Now workers have been bumped off, elves have been taken hostage and Santa himself has been kidnapped! Could the whole attack be an inside job? Mccandycane is alone, tired and the only chance anyone has got, but he must single handedly solve the murders, stop the misfit toys, find the inside contact, or contacts, make up with his wife and maybe, just maybe, save the Holidays