Colonel March is back in Paris and enjoying the company of Inspector Goron of the Surete at a bar.
While having a glass of Carcazon which seems off to Goron. He discusses with the Colonel their differing methods of detection.
Goron prefers to use the heart. The Colonel uses his head and prefers logic.
When a customer called Phillipe in the bar dies. It turns out that he was poisoned and he was also a monk as well a connoisseur of Carcazon.
The culprit might be Francois who was with Phillipe. It turns out that Francois was also a monk who came to Paris and fell in love.
Now Francois has returned to his remote monastery and taken a vow of silence. A monastery that makes Carcazon.
Goron meanwhile suspects the singer in the bar, the one who seemed close to Francois.
A young man, Guy Wallingford, bursts into March's office and exclaims "They've stolen the monkey." Guy explains that he he had already talked to Inspector Ames and that Ames told him to go to March saying that March "handled the monkey business end of the profession." Guy is a brilliant but mentally unstable scientist who works at the lab of the eminent scientist, Sir George Watkins. Guy and two other researchers are doing cancer research using monkeys to test their theories. Guy insists one of the test monkeys has been substituted. Guy becomes increasingly distraught and when he later is found dead from gas, Ames readily believes it to have been suicide. There is a very clever solution to the mystery which March in his usual urbane manner sorts out.
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