James Alfred Biersovich, former sportswriter, now head of security at the upscale La Scala department store in Minneapolis, is ready for the Christmas shopping season to begin. He thinks. The year is 1999. When and "Beers and " gets called to scenes of mischief and mayhem around the store, he realizes there's more than a little Y2K craziness going on. Doing double-duty as the store's Santa doesn't help. But with a little help from his and "friends and " - and the Scalabrino clan - can he solve his first case and tie it up in a big red bow?