Hortense Is Abducted

The second installment in Roubaud's popular and widely acclaimed "Hortense" series opens with a murder of a dog at the Church of Saint-Gudule. Chief Inspector Blognard and his sidekick Arapede are on the scene， as is our narrator， Jacques Roubaud. While they track down the Poldevian criminal， teenage girls argue the relative merits of the boy bands Dew-Pon Dew-Val and Landau Valley， Pere Sinouls tries to program a computer to take his place at the organ so that he can continue to practice Beeranalysis， and the clientele of the Gudule Bar debate the reality of Infinity. Time is running out for the Inspector， however， as the murderer puts into action his plot to kidnap our heroine Hortense， a 22-year-old philosophy student whose buttocks are so beautiful their description has been banned from the printed page.