A Death In Brittany, Bannalec - B+

                     Commissaire Dupin has been sent off from Paris for insulting the mayor, who is now the President of France. After three years in Brittany, he has come to appreciate the culture, language, food, and people, although, to all true Bretons, he will always be an outsider. A local legend is murdered at 91. Pierre has been running a hotel that had been started by his grandmother. The hotel is famous as it was a watering hole a long time ago for Paul Gauguin and other 19th century painters. Indeed, Pierre's murder, and all of the intrigue and duplicity here, is occasioned by the fact that hanging in the restaurant is a 130 year old undiscovered original Gauguin. Somehow, Dupin guesses at its provenance and solves the crime on the fourth day after the murder. This is the beginning of a promising series.