It’s a case worthy of Sherlock Holmes: A detective solves a murder, only to discover he committed it after a local businessman is found shot on the beach. It sounds too incredible to be true, and as you’ll learn, the biggest mystery of all is whether it actually happened.
According to the commonly repeated version of events, a well-respected French police detective named Robert Ledru journeyed to the coastal city of Le Havre in 1887. He went there to investigate the killing of a local businessman who had been found dead on the beach, shot at close range.
