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Mon dieu...
Petit-Pois cannot refuse a challenge! Petit-Pois can NEVER refuse a challenge!
...a murder. But more importantly, Tesla, a challenge!
Pass me the telecommunications device immediately, you featherbrained simian!
You mean the phone? I must call this chocolate Bar!
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C’est ridicule! This telephone is cassÊ - broken!
Sigh...
There ya go.
I can hear no answer. Tesla, prepare my vestments!
Petit-Pois, he is on the case!
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Let us not tarry, Tesla! Allons y! A challenge indeed!
Ah. oui.
My clothes first.
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Ah, BONJOUR my dear. We have been invited?
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Your name?
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My dear young lady, I am the great Petit-Pois...
...the famous Swiss detective, the most celebrated private detective in all of Europe, perhaps the entire world.
No Marcel Petit-Pois. There IS a Marcel Nitwit?
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You aren’t on the list.
But Petit-Pois has been invited! MARCEL Petit-Pois? Oui. C’est moi.
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This music... ...is too loud... ...for Petit-Pois...
Be careful,Tesla, one of these good (and very vigorous) people may soon be murdered... Or may soon be a murderer!
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