After 5 years in Rome, Louis Audiat is delighted because the statute of limitations for his legal case will soon end. Unfortunately for him, Judge Walder de Neuville has him summoned upon his return to France.
Charles Bernard is head of security in a company, but. He is also a killer and eliminates the nuisances with his accomplices. One evening, Charles kills a young worker from the spinning mill who was threatening his wife.
Dupuy-Laroche, feeling threatened by Judge Walder de Neuville, tries to compromise him. With the help of Murel, their plan consists of making people believe that the judge has a mistress in the person of Simone Léonard .
In order to recover money stashed in Switzerland, Jean-Marc Olivier, a writer with a desire for power, makes people believe that there are traitors in the organization in which he participates.
Thanks to his position, Georges d'Audibert trafficked drugs for the profit of Fernand di Bono. Walder de Neuville will have to postpone his departure on vacation several times in order to stop these gangsters.
In a small ski resort in the Alps, crooked promoters do not hesitate to set fire to a nightclub. Villequier, seeing that there is a bank down there, asks Walder de Neuville to interrupt his vacation to go there.
.Orphaned at the age of six, Gilles is taken in by his uncle Lucien, a maniacal old man, who promptly places him in a boarding school. When his studies are completed, Gilles arrives in Paris. He is eighteen years old.
Georges-Daniel Berger is about be admitted to the French Academy. His book, was seized for contempt of public morals by the Ministry of the Interior. In the middle of the ceremony ,the writer is forced to remain silent.
President Chaufournier wants to retire and spend the rest of his days among priests. Before leaving, he bequeathed the estate of "La Badiane" to the hands of Félicien Hébrard and his friends. But the estate is also coveted by a local sect.
In the south of the country two eco-independence groups are agitating. In addition, three women are found murdered, including a prefect's wife. Walder de Neuville and the Villequier couple leave for Albi to resolve the problems.
Minister Marcel Gaillac dies when the plane he was taking is sabotaged. Who has an interest in his death? Is it political or family? Villequier and Walder de Neuville go to the scene to solve the enigma.
Hundreds of paintings hidden since the 16th century are found by Irène Domodossola. When she decide to resell one, a lawyer bursts in and indicates that the painting is a fake.
