After he's implicated in several murders, a real estate agent hides out from the cops while his intrepid secretary does some private investigating of her own to locate the killer.

Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel, an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discovers that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is very suspected. But his secretary, Barbara Becker, while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations...—Yepok

With his fingerprints all over the car of his wife's murdered lover, real-estate agent Julien Vercel is with his back to the wall. And as the suffocating stranglehold of the law tightens around him, desperate Julien tries to buy time to prove his innocence--after all, Julien's long-suffering secretary, Barbara Becker, never lost faith in him. Now, the statuesque supporter has only a few days to connect the dots and crack the knotty case. However, when seemingly unrelated people start dying right and left, dangerous secrets and sinister characters stand in the way of the truth. Can amateur detective Barbara get to the bottom of the grisly crime before the French police? Will Julien get off scot-free?—Nick Riganas

When Massoulier, the owner of the Eden Theater in Mureaux in Southern France, is found shot to death while out hunting in the woods, local real estate agent Julien Vercel is the primary suspect for various reasons, including he known to be hunting there at the same time, but more importantly that it has been suspected that Massoulier and Vercel's ex-beautician wife Marie-Christine Vercel were having an affair. Julien had not told anyone, but was contemplating divorce on his belief of her infidelity. The police do question him, but don't have enough evidence to hold him. So when Julien subsequently discovers Marie-Christine's murdered body in their house, she who had just returned from a trip to Nice where she was originally from, Julien, unable to enlist his lawyer Clément who got him off with regard to Massoulier, instead turns to Barbara Becker, his most recent secretary who he just fired for conduct unbecoming, for help, she surprising him by going above and beyond to provide that help which includes doing the legwork in investigating the murders, Julien believing the key to both being to discover what Marie-Christine was doing in Nice, and to discover the identity of the anonymous female caller harassing them about the murders. As Barbara hides her boss at the office and goes off to do the necessary legwork, the two get into one disagreement after another, which hides the reason why Barbara is as tenacious as she is in providing this help. But what if Barbara's help is misguided and Julien really is the murderer?—Huggo