Chief Inspector Louis Drangnet and his partner Angèle Fernier started most mornings in the same leisurely way. After some gentle love-making, getting up and dressed and then a light breakfast, they would spend half an hour sitting in together in the high-ceilinged, elegant dining room in Angèles apartment on the Île Saint Louis. She would opening the mail that had been delivered and he took this first scan through of morning’s newspapers. It was a companionable moment before they went their separate ways for their day’s work.
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Picking up one of the envelopes that had fallen from the pile in Angèle’s lap, Louis noticed that the flap seemed to have been steamed open and the re-sealed. Her mail was being intercepted.
From that moment there ensued a week-long investigation and danger that involved murder and conspiracy, espionage, kidnapping and diplomatic betrayal at the highest levels of the French government.
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This short but violent journey involved the help of a German diplomat who have been his enemy at the French defeat at Wissembourg during the war with Germany a littlemore that ten years before. His saviour was a common French soldier who he had rescued from the same blood-soaked fields.
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