A LOAF OF BREAD, A JUG OF WINE AND MURDER Smith ofArks, the charming French village of Courville drowses in the hot Provencal sunshine, then sleeps under starry skies while a killer slits the throats of pretty girls. The local gendarmerie is baffled...
STARLIGHT, CHAMPAGNE AND MURDER A sweet-scented breeze greets Chief Inspector Damiot's arrival on the sunny Cote d'Azur...and so does trouble. His secret mission is to assist the local prefecture in recovering a stolen Cezanne. His private plan is ...
It's a rainy November evening in Paris, and Inspector Damiot is settling into bed when the phone call comes: a man has been found face down in the street. Murdered. When the victim is identified as Alex Scott, the famous American movie star, Inspecto...
A number of baffling cases confront the renowned Vidocq, chief of the famed Surete Nationale, and his loyal staff of reformed criminals that hot summer of 1823. There is the murder of the famous Parisian jeweler, and the murder of Maya, the Spanish w...
A "Chief Inspector Damiot" mystery! All the newspapers would be certain to make a big thing out of it tomorrow: Sadoyan escaping from a prison van in the courtyard of the Prefecture de Police. Young Officer Lorant was a fool to have turned his back ...
Mr. and Mrs. Benson were enjoying their cruise around the world, oblivious to the criminal types around them. After all, as Americans, they had nothing to worry about. Not even in Los Angeles, last stop before the Orient. Or did they?...
A classic mystery originally published in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, April 1965....