fluffy checked his vinyl briefcase for hockey pucks , but all he found were his laptop computer , six tins of corned beef , a can of sardines , twelve boxes of licorice allsorts , a box of digestive biscuits , melissa manners on what not to do at parties , an assortment of barbara cartland romance novels , a book on the great chefs of tuscany , a wad of italian lira from his tour of the restaurants of florence , and six boxes of cigars .