Business is booming for Parisian private investigator AimĂ©e Leduc. But she finds time to do a favor for her godfather, Commissaire Morbier, who asks her to drop by the gorgeous Passy home of his girlfriend, Xavierre dâEslay, a haut bourgeois matron of Basque origin. Xavierre has been so busy with her daughterâs upcoming wedding that she has stopped taking Morbierâs calls, and heâs worried something serious is going on. When AimĂ©e crashes the rehearsal dinner, Xavierre is discovered strangled in her own yard, and circumstantial evidence makes Morbier the prime suspect. To vindicate her godfather, AimĂ©e must find the real killer. Her investigation leads her to police corruption, radical Basque terrorists, and a kidnapped Spanish princess.