Michel Ardan

In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes: A horrific and, on the face of it, incomprehensible murder has just been committed on the unsympathetic person of a loan

Panic: Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris

The Big Risk: Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning to France after years

Martin Roumagnac: The local building-contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blache, Mart

The Heroic Mr. Boniface: A simple man gets involved in an implausible story of gangsters in the wake of the discovery of a criminal's dead body i