Por pura amabilidad

In this original mix -genuinely British in flavor- of a comedy of customs and a detective novel, a circumspect doctor receives in payment for his services an impoverished old woman some trunks with "family memories". Among the relics are an old wedding dress, a few old books, a pile of useless junk, and sixteen paintings in disrepair. However, Madame Du Plessis, the head of one of the doctor's daughters in the municipal library, who is fond of art, intuits that these paintings could well have been part of the Lorenzo de Medici collection: some could be a Botticelli, another a Leonardo. The risky hypothesis is disproved by Sir Harry Maximer, England's greatest expert on Old Masters, who declares that they are all worthless copies. But the librarian and the director of a provincial museum suspect that Sir Harry is lying and is plotting a cunning scam. From there begins a series of rugged investigations, races against the clock, spontaneous love affairs and interested seductions.