Or as translated The Assassin Lives at Number 21, is a French murder mystery of the most chipper kind where a killer is knocking off people at random (a man here, a woman there), stealing their valuables & leaving a note for the police to entice & frustrate them. A detective is given the case & clues soon lead him to a boarder house where he pretends to be a priest, stay as a guest & ferret out the killer from amongst a gallery of eccentrics (one is a magician) but whenever a suspect is taken in for questioning, the murders continue leading the investigator to a surprising & satisfying ending. Coming from Henri-Georges Clouzot (Diabolique/The Wages of Fear), this mirthful yarn is full of winsome detail & good spirits in spite of the possibly dark subject matter but like any good murder mystery, it delivers at the end.
Review of The Murderer Lives at Number 21
