Status Updates From A Telegram from Le Touquet

The plot is intricate, but after an investigation that Nigel Derry describes as “tireless and brilliant,” Blampignon finally makes sense of everything that has happened, while emphasising in the closing words that the vital lead was indeed the “telegram from Le Touquet.”

he opines that: “In nine cases out of ten, the solution to the problem posed by a murder case is to be found in the character of the victim.” This theory is ultimately vindicated when he uncovers the truth...At 11.45 a.m. on Friday, April 22nd, a woman drives out of the Customs sheds at Boulogne Maritime. Four days later…the dead body of this woman is discovered in a trunk some eight hundred miles away.