The Return of Inspector Pirat

"The Return of Inspector Pirat : His First Book" is a series of apparently-unrelated detective short stories, but with a link that may not become apparent until the final chapter. A college professor with a passion for detective fiction annually invites those of his students who are similarly-inclined along to his house for an evening of good food, well-chosen wine, and, hopefully, inspired story-telling. Each of twenty students reads out his or her story to the others, the stories being interspersed with moments of inebriation, passion and fleas ...