Sergeant Studer finds himself in Paris at the start of the book, then Basel and
Bern before returning to Paris and then travelling to a Moroccan outpost of the Foreign Legion in disguise in a very complicated tale of murder and greed. Possibly because of the numerous changes in location and the
occasional unexplained coincidences, I found this less satisfying than the
books firmly set in Switzerland while still admiring the excellence of the
plotting and the economical use of language. As I have mentioned before,
how much of one's appreciation is due to the translator rather than the
originator is hard to decide though it must be assumed that the style of the
former has to match that of the latter as closely as possible to produce a
satisfactory result.