A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assistant, Inspector Charbonnier are put on the case. After interviewing friends, wives, colleagues, and spying on strangers who might be connected, our heroes trace the assassin down to a mental institution where, it seems, the murder victim has been an inmate for the last three years...
A group of former Encyclopedia Brown-style child-detectives ...
After killing her husband, Peggy Gravel and her murderous ma...
Set in 1955, French secret agent Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath...