Commissaire Georges Dupin, a cantankerous, Parisian-born caffeine junkie
recently relocated from the glamour of Paris to the remote (if picturesque)
Breton coast, is dragged from his morning croissant and coffee to the scene of a
curious murder. The local village of Pont-Aven-a sleepy community by the sea
where everyone knows one other and nothing much seems to happen - is in shock.
The legendary ninety-one-year-old hotelier Pierre-Louis Pennec, owner of the
Central Hotel, has been found dead.
A picture-perfect seaside village which played host to Gaugin in the 19th
century, Pont-Aven is at the height of its tourist season and is immediately
thrown into uproar. Dupin and his