Vacationing in Normandy, suave sleuth Homer Evans and his stylish, pistol-packing friend Miriam Leonard catch sight of a familiar member of the notorious gang, the St. Julian Rollers. As Homer and Miriam depart for Paris, that gang member called the Singe is also at the Rouen train station and covertly signals to their compartment as the train pulls from the station. What follows lives up spectacularly to the title of Elliot Paul's mystery classic. Against a richly evoked background of Paris in the 1930s, Homer and Miriam deftly manage to mix serious detection with madcap adventure.