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In the middle of a sea cruise, Commissioner Crémèr is confronted with a particularly difficult case: during a stopover, Professor Shrewbury is tragically killed by a falling tree. But it turns out that the tree didn’t fall by accident – someone cut it down deliberately. A case of murder !
Displaying his legendary perspicacity, the commissioner swiftly discovers the killer… who ends up beeing a faustolopithecus, member of a small species of highly evolved monkeys. And here the problem of the inquiry becomes metaphysical. For Crémèr must decide whether the hominid is sufficiently highly evolved to be treated as a human. Is it a murderer, or a mere animal without a conscience or soul? Should it be judged by the laws of men, or rendered up to the laws of nature ? …
