Contents

Chapter 1. Arthur Davidson’s lurid imagination

Chapter 2. Retrospect of the Widow

Chapter 3. Hautepierre with a Manchester accent

Chapter 4. The widow’s observatory

Chapter 5. Chez Mauricette

Chapter 6. Stocktaking

Chapter 7. Redefinition of the private eye

Chapter 8. Fringes of Professionalism

Chapter 9. The Thin Man’s Wife

Chapter 10. The Meinau Marie-Line

Chapter 11. Realities

Chapter 12. Monsieur Dupont’s Café Confidences

Chapter 13. Mise au point

Chapter 14. A Slightly Unwished-for Houseguest

Chapter 15. Diverse Deeds

Chapter 16. Divers Facts

Chapter 17. Pressure

Chapter 18. Grace under pressure

Chapter 19. You take the gun, Trelawney; you’re the best shot

Chapter 20. Solidarity

Chapter 21. A landed proprietor in heaven

Chapter 22. Arthur’s War

Chapter 23. Women thinking, women talking

Chapter 24. An Irritating Nonchalance

Chapter 25. Lycée Classique

Chapter 26. The Flowering Suburb

Chapter 27. The Two Michels

Chapter 28. A lavish expense-account lunch

Chapter 29. The Marginals

Chapter 30. Shrouded Hammer

Chapter 31. Between Jerusalem and Jericho

Chapter 32. The Nasty Accident

Chapter 33. Suite of the nasty accident

Chapter 34. The Police Judiciaire

Chapter 35. Interrogations

Chapter 36. Madame le Juge

Chapter 37. A foggy evening on the autoroute

Chapter 38. A Masterly Throw of the Net

Chapter 39. The Beginnings of Execution

Chapter 40. White Fang’

A Note on the Author