Murder in the castle of St. Marbel

A few minutes before midnight in the east wing of St. Marbell Castle, in the midst of a game at the poker table, something happened that we refuse to believe until the last. One of the players, who had just hit the jackpot with 6 zeros on a square of queens, a moment after his triumph, fell dead on the table ... The silence that reigned at the table was broken by a female cry, which, it seems, did not surprise everyone ...

In the office of the commissioner of the local police department, the telephone rang alarmingly. The interlocutor on the other end of the wire said that a well-known banker, president of the Banque Nationale deParis (BNP), David Perrin, was killed under mysterious circumstances on the estate of Count Laurent Bovezi. The waiter, the croupier and the other 7 players, including Count Bovezi, have been detained and are already testifying. Quite contradictory, by the way, complicating an already complicated matter ...

A glance at the folder with the dossier on young inspectors who had recently graduated from the Higher School of the National Police of France again brought a smile to the tired face of the commissioner: “Entrust such a complicated matter to beginners, why not?”, he suddenly thought and ordered to immediately gather the entire group to travel to their first official murder investigation in their career...