Marcel de Garcin

After a rich English lady is killed in a Dijon house, the only person there who doesn't have a solid alibi is about to be arrested.Will a detective from Paris be able to help?

Pierre Bernier, un jeune peintre, a épousé Lolette, un petit modèle. La gloire venue, il tombe amoureux d'une princesse certainement plus décorative que sa jeune femme. Apres avoir tente de se suicider, Lolette est recueillie par un ami et pardonne a l'infidèle qui l'a quittée.

The ambassador of a Ruritanian land charges his attache with cozying up to the wife of the war minister, to get her to change her husband's mind about a treaty he opposes. Complications both political and romantic ensue.