One of John Dixon Carr's best novels. A detective who has absorbed the cruel, vicious shine of the thirties...Henri Bencolin, the best detective in Paris, is investigating the murder of two young beauties. The body of one is found in the Seine, the corpse of the other is clutched in the arms of a wax figure of Satyr from the local museum. It soon becomes clear: both victims were connected with a mysterious closed club, where the richest and most famous men and women of the capital have fun, staging crazy orgies... But which of the members club has gone so far in its entertainment that it has crossed the forbidden line?