A masked gang rob a supermarket at Talant, a home-made bomb is found at the local airport, and the body of an old man is found on the motorway near Mailly-les-Temps, and what is the connection between a fearful lawyer and the fatal stabbing of a Scottish tourist. On top of all this, Daniel Darcy, trusted deputy to Chief Inspector Pel has been suspended on suspicion of taking bribes. " . . . filled with the sounds, smells and tastes of France."
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Bad humor is raised to a fine art by French Chief Inspector Pel, who in more than a dozen books ( Pel and the Party Spirit ) has shown a liking only for his rich wife, Gauloises and anything Burgundian--to him, Burgundy "wasn't a province of France, it was a religion." Now Pel is unhappy about a series of daring robberies by a motorized gun-toting gang, about losing some of his staff (reassigned due to a rise in the number of missing persons) and about an old man found dead, apparently a hit-and-run victim. Who is the old man? And why, among other anomalies, was there no blood at the scene? Pel and his loyal aides--aristocratic DeTroq', handsome Darcy et al.--manage to answer all questions in a tale involving decades-old blackmail, murder and greed. Procedural aspects are handled as superbly as ever, although sharp-eyed readers may spot a crucial murder clue before Pel does. Fans will be pleased, especially with the ongoing feud between Pel and his equally irascible cook, Mme. Routy, whose swap of insults at the door is "another little daily ceremony taken care of."
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Kirkus Reviews
A series of near-unsolvable cases keep Burgundy's Chief Inspector Pel busy even as he tries to deal with the heavy-handed attempts of newly returned, politically connected Detective Inspector Goriot to take over his department (Pel and the Predators, etc.). Too many missing persons; the identity search for an elderly man found dead on the highway (his injuries inconsistent with auto accident); a bomb at the airport that inadvertently caused the death of a police officer; floating rumors of corruption about Pel's warmly regarded Inspector Darcy; the missing owner of a home for geriatrics; a series of hit-run robberies by a gang the press have christened the Tuaregs; and more--all in a welter of crisscrossing threads that, at one point, touch Pel's unflappable wife Genevieve. Pel and his team triumph, as always, in a police procedural occasionally overloaded with technical detail but kept engrossing with fast-paced happenings and vivacious characters. Another solid job from an ever-reliable author. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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