Acclaimed double-act Max and Ivan return one last time as incompetent private detectives for hire. It’s New Year’s Eve, but any plans for celebration are put on ice as Max and Ivan are tasked with investigating fearsome crime family matriarch, Mama Shanks - played by special guest Katherine Parkinson. Word on the street is that she has something big planned for this very evening but, in a plot that takes in vaping, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and 10,000 bees, can Max and Ivan find out what it going down before it is too late? Cast: Max ..... Max Olesker Ivan ..... Ivan Gonzalez Martha Shanks ..... Katherine Parkinson Narrator / Malcolm McMichaelmas ..... Lewis MacLeod Lumpy ..... Jessica Ransom PC Gribble ..... David Reed Written by Max Olesker and Ivan Gonzalez Original music by Huw Olesker and Samuel H James Developed by John Stanley Productions Produced by Ben Walker A Hare and Tortoise production for BBC Radio 4