A senior French detective is on his way to question the man, a spokesman said.

The fate of the French detective is not known.

Instead, he stared at the French detective, and then burst out laughing.

They're all just dead French detectives, right?

It is named after a nineteenth-century French detective.

What was the one I read years ago where the main character was a French Canadian detective who had an aneurism?

I knew he was a famous French fictional detective, but that was all.

If I can put all that down, and this town down, I thought, readers will feel themselves living in the world of the French detective.

In a minute and a half the French detective was joined on the opposite pavement by an inspector and a man in plain clothes.

Flora insists that Poirot is called in to investigate and little time passes before the French detective arrives.