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- The story of the first bearded lady attraction.
- Gilliat,a fisherman/smuggler is in jail, and is offered a pardon if he undertakes a mission to sail to France to rescue Droucette, an English agent whose cover has been blown, and who has now been jailed. Gilliat accepts the challenge.
- Labbé is a quiet hatter in a small town, living with his handicapped wife who never goes out. His neighbour, a tailor, is fascinated by him. A series of female murders shakes the town. Is Labbé involved?
- Simon and Dede are best friends: two aimless drunks who spend their days getting sloshed and any other available time getting laid. Simon is living on unemployment benefits in a trailer parked near his sister's apartment. Dede works at a fish-packing plant on the night shift. Neither man is sensitive, young, or good looking. However, their sang-froid (literally, "cold blood," referring to a quality of imperturbability) stands them in good stead as they go about their seedy lives, picking up one woman and having sex with her on the beach, or when Simon calmly has sex with a prostitute in front of the woman's brother. In the past, a bizarre necrophiliac situation led to Simon experiencing his only sense of what it might be to truly love someone.
- A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.
- Maigret investigates in Concarneau where the passage of a yellow dog accompanies a series of murders, sowing terror in the population. The police seem helpless. It must be said that it has no significant evidence.
- Crew members of a French fishing ship in the North Sea fall ill one by one, poisoned by rotten meat. They can only survive by getting serum within the following hours. Joint actions of rescuers from different countries commence.
- The new captain of a cursed fishing vessel falls in love with the owner's daughter, which displeases his jealous lover.
- Here's a railway station.Next to it,there's generally a town;and in a town,there is love!The train arrives. Mr.Andrieu is expecting his sardines and both his daughters,back from winter sports.
- Right next to Dupin, a respected businessman, apparently bumped, falls to his death. The Commissioner begins to investigate.
- 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.
- A painter was found burned in her studio twenty years ago. Her story resurfaces when the police begin to investigate on two others homicides in Pont-Aven.
- 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.
- 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.