Providing illicit lovers with alibis has become a lucrative industry that is spreading across Europe.
No denials, no false alibis, just a blank look followed by a non-committal answer.
Holed up in Grandma's cottage, they take turns to explain their alibis to a nattily dressed frog who, like many an earlier fictional private detective.
In the other cases, he is said to have ordered the killings and then set himself up with alibis while the murders were committed.
