"Hot-headed and uncultured Captain Antoine Verlay gets assigned against his will to the Central Office for the Fight against Trafficking in Cultural Goods and teams up with wildly imaginative art historian Florence Chassagne to solve art-related murder cases. Luckily, they have Florence's art historian father in the wings for consultation. Through their intriguing investigations, they delve into the history of great artists and follow in the footsteps of renowned masters such as Monet, Bosch, Courbet, Degas, van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec and Botticelli. Their cases lead them through Paris' spectacular cultural landscape: The Louvre, Musée d'Orsay, Hôtel de Ville, the Paris Catacombs, Place Vendôme, Jacquemart-André Museum, Versailles and many more emblematic locations. Verlay and Chassagne, an unlikely duo, learn that the keys to solving the crimes lie in the works of art themselves and also collaborating together, even as they clash"--