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At the fashionable French resort of AixlesBains a murder is discovered wealthy but nave Mme Dauvray is found strangled in the salon of her villa apparently for her famously expensive jewels Her young English companion Celia Harland is missing and her maid is bound and chloroformed upstairs A young English inventor who has been courting Miss Harland adamantly protests her innocence and begs the famous Sret detective Inspector Hanaud to investigate