<p>An aristocratic young woman, Denise de Richemont, has murdered an important journalist, Jaques Le Tellier. She is acquitted by a sympathetic jury when she confesses it to be a crime of passion - revenge for the journalist&apos;s indiscreet revelation of his mistress&apos; sordid family secrets. <br /><br />But the real reason why Mademoiselle de Richemont killed Le Tellier is far more sinister, and Inspector Gautier pursues the case from the <i>haute monde</i> of fashionable Paris to the seething and dangerous slums, determined to solve the mystery behind the murder.</p>