Inspector Lampion gets badly wounded during a case and has to rest. Superintendent Larosière rents a room for him in a small village which looks the perfect place to recover, except someone is sending ugly poison-pen letters.
Superintendent Larosière is faced with a fifteen years old cold case, and five suspects with contradictory testimonies; adapted from "Five Little Pigs".
Larosière runs into his former captain during the Great War, who invites him to his family castle. He surprises everyone when he announces his marriage to Albertine, a young woman he met in Africa; adapted from "Taken at the Flood".
Sacha escapes from a psychiatric hospital and hides in an isolated house. On the first evening, she has a terrible vision of a bloody woman. Is it related to a recently deceased woman in a house nearby? Adapted from "Sleeping Murder".
The duet Larosière-Lampion investigate the murder of a woman, last seen entering a theatre. Meanwhile, the superintendent's daughter Juliette, storms into his life, and might be in danger; adapted from "Lord Edgware Dies".