Kommissar Dupin

Georges Dupin, a crack but somewhat maverick Paris criminal commissioner, is sent to coastal Brittany. He must solve the murder, soon two, of two members of the respected local Penec family of a national MP. Despite mistrust of the cocky metropolitan outsider, he and his nerd assistant work out the key is an officially unknown painting by Gaugin, promised to a Paris museum, and forgery.

Metropolitan police inspector Dupin had previously been relocated to rural Britanny. His second case starts off on a remote island where the corpses of three drugged sailors were washed upon the shore. Dupin has to deal with sullen islanders and at the same time he wants to keep his ex-girlfriend in a good mood as she has traveled to visit him all the way from Paris.

Something is wrong with the saline deposits in Guérande: Therefore, the journalist Lilou who investigates in that case contacts her friend inspector Dupin and asks for an urgent meeting. They agree to meet at the suspicious place, where according to Lilou's findings there is massive environment danger caused by the company producing the salt. Instead of Lilou, a bullet meets Dupin's arm who just in the last second can escape from the sniper. Lilou has disappeared. The inspector who is responsible for the precinct, Rose, doesn't like to see Dupin investigating the whereabouts of Lilou who finally was found dead. Nevertheless, Dupin and his team who continue their investigations against the will of Rose find out that the reason for Lilou's murder are the dirty methods of the powerful local salt industry.

The sequel deals with a murder in the Breton and British oyster businesses. By Breton pride, the author means the oysters.

To go by the book and the locations, it is about two murders in the fishing business in the extreme west of Brittany around the bay of Douarnenez. A fisherwoman is found with her throat slit next to the fish auctioning hall in Douarnenez. Just as Commissaire Dupin and his team start questioning locals, a second murder is reported from the small island of Sein. The first victim hails from there, was known for her sustainable opinions and opposition to the local fishing magnate. The second victim is a biologist who just recently moved there. She was occupied with studying the dolphins in Iroise Maritime Nature Park.

On summer vacation in their own Brittany, commissioner Georges Dupin finally lets his girl friend Claire Lannoy drag him along to a beach hotel at the quiet Claire Côte de Granit Rose, where the latest murder was in a quarry seven years ago, as the hotel manager eagerly points out. Beach strolling, Dupin meets and befriends real estate tycoon Gilbert Durand, but his a strange feeling about his odd wife Alizée, who shortly after drowns after jumping in the Atlantic ocean, apparently suicide, as both men must watch from land, but the corpse doesn't turn or wash up. Durand suspects a link when another woman mysteriously falls to her death in the quarry, where he met Durand, which the rude owner bluntly refuses access to. Local police chief Desespringalle isn't up to the complicated case, Dupin can't resist butting in.

Inspector Dupin and his fellow-workers go on an excursion to King Arthur's woods in the center of Brittany. But as they arrive, one of the scientists occupied with research on places linked to the King Arthur epic is found murdered. A little later, a second scientist is found dead near fairy Vivien's well. All of a sudden, inspector Dupin becomes the head of a murder inquiry authorized by the ministry of the interior in Paris.

Right next to Dupin, a respected businessman, apparently bumped, falls to his death. The Commissioner begins to investigate.

In the market hall of Saint-Malo, Commissioner Dupin witnesses how top restaurateur Blanche Trouin is stabbed by her sister Lucille. Lucille flees headlong, but is caught and arrested by Dupin. Since then she has remained silent. Dupin, who is always interested in understanding the background to an act, is faced with a mystery. He realizes it's not a cold-blooded planned murder, but why doesn't Lucille try to defend himself? Although the crime scene is apparently perfectly clear, Dupin begins the investigation. He meets Blanche's husband Kilian, who seems less affected by Blanche's death than by Lucille's deed, and Charles Braz, Lucille's partner, who at first tries in panic to flee from Dupin. Nobody plays with open cards, everyone is hiding something. Dupin senses that there is more to the violence than a deadly argument between sisters. When there are two more murder victims, Dupin knows that his instincts have not deceived him.

A body is pulled out of the sea off the coast of the Breton island of Belle-Île. It is about the rich landowner Patric Provost. It quickly becomes clear that Provost died neither by suicide nor by an accident, he was strangled, as Inspector Dupin realizes. There are enough suspects. A lonely, ruthless character, Provost lived at peace with very few people on the island. There was little contact with his ex-wife Agnès, she now lives with the fisherman Albert. Provost nevertheless believed that Agnès would return to him. However, that didn't stop him from having an affair with his neighbor Margot. Margot and her opaque husband Byn are also economically dependent on Provost with their whiskey distillery. Dupin and Inspector Kadeg encounter a web of fatal dependencies, jealousy and conflicting business interests. But Dupin's instinct tells him that behind the obvious conflicts lies another, hidden and painful story.

When Kadeg visits his aunt in the Côte des Abers, the inspector experiences a shock: Joelle Contel is badly injured on the stairs and dies a few minutes later. While searching for the intruder, Kadeg is knocked out from behind. While Commissioner Dupin takes up the investigation with the usual meticulousness, he worries for the life of his colleague, who is in a coma. Through Nolwenn, Dupin learns about Kadeg's ominous family history and his special closeness to Aunt Joelle, who took care of him after his parents' death. Upon arriving in northern Brittany, Dupin encounters more suspicious deaths and learns of strife within the Contel fruit-growing clan. Joelle's brother Victor resents the murdered woman for not having sold him fertile farmland. Dupin's investigations also focus on the long-ago death of a young woman from Romania, for which the harvest worker Iupescu was convicted.

In der herrlichen Weinregion des Muscadet macht ein Mord an einem Gutsbesitzer dem frischgebackenen Ehepaar Georges und Claire Dupin die gerade begonnenen Flitterwochen zunichte. Hin- und hergerissen zwischen Privat- und Berufsleben muss Pasquale Aleardi alias Kommissar Dupin die Ermittlungen zu seinem zwölften Fall "Bretonischer Ruhm" aufnehmen - und kommt zwischen großen Weinen und alten Namen schicksalhaften Geheimnissen auf die Spur. Nach einem Drehbuch von Eckhard Vollmar inszenierte Holger Haase den 12. Einsatz des eigenwilligen Kommissars an Originalschauplätzen in der Bretagne. Die literarische Vorlage für diesen spannenden Krimi stammt wieder aus der Feder von Bestsellerautor Jean-Luc Bannalec. Kommissar Dupin (Pasquale Aleardi) und seine Claire (Christina Hecke) haben den entscheidenden Schritt gewagt, sie haben geheiratet. Ihre Flitterwochen führen sie zu Claires Freundin Cécile Katell (Birte Hanusrichter), die mit ihrem Ehemann Brian (Markus Frank) das berühmte Weingut Katell betreibt. Doch Dupins und Claires Aufenthalt steht unter keinem guten Stern: Kaum sind sie angekommen, wird Brian tot aufgefunden. Trotz Flitterwochen überredet Claire Dupin, den Mord aufzuklären. Unterstützt von Inspektor Kadeg (Jan Georg Schütte) und Polizistin Nevou (Gisa Flake) ergründet Dupin die Geheimnisse des Chateaus: Da gibt es die benachbarte Winzerfamilie Joly, die das angeschlagene Chateau Katell übernehmen will; die junge Angestellte Emily (Luisa Binger), die eine Affäre mit Brian hatte - wovon Cecile wusste; Emilys Verlobten Alain (Josef Heynert) - angeblich Brians bester Freund. Außer Gutsverwalter Marchand (Jürgen Heinrich) scheint niemand wirklich um Brian zu trauern. Und in diesem ganzen undurchdringlichen Geflecht aus Lügen, Enttäuschung und Gier ist plötzlich Claire verschwunden.