Someone has written (on the ice) this story tailored to Luc Merenda. Inspector Verrazzano doesn’t have to give explanations, just shoot when he leaves the barber shop and spots a car theft—he takes out two guys with machine gun fire—nor does he have to ask for explanations like Giulia Medici, who asks him to investigate why her brother Walter didn’t commit suicide but is so hurt by grief that she invites Verrazzano for a whisky at night. He has not yet stuck his nose into the affairs of Cora, his brother Walter’s ex-wife, when she introduces Verrazzano to her new husband Marco at her house with a swimming pool. He almost kicks him out because his questions were not entirely polite, and then we have the robbery at the notary’s office or bank where two employees facilitate their rape by the thieves in a scene so bad that it has to be repeated many times to verify that it was genuine. Verrazzano pays his usual visit to fornicate with Rossy, a married woman, and when they both hear a knock at the door, it is a saleswoman. It is funny that the fraud to hide the fake suicide is the fraud of the plot that is understood halfway through the story when it is revealed that the bullet that killed Walter Medici was not from the suicide victim’s own gun, ergo, someone killed him. I was hoping that the trip to Nice to continue investigating, you know, Nice with its beaches and women, would improve everything, but it was only a 20-second sigh. I’m not so sure I can accept without getting very angry that the villains have eliminated Ciro, Verrazzano’s cat. What fault did he have? Damn bastards. Was the trip to Nice of any importance?

At least he found the public limited company founded by Ars Medici, whose CEO is his new husband, Marco Varelli. Anyway, all the fuss to take the story to Nice made no more sense than having Rosy, the married woman who was Verrazzano’s lover, meet him there. The problem is that they are ambushed by one of the killer’s henchmen and boom, goodbye Rosy while the commissioner was driving. Two close friends dead, and he lets off steam with Giorgia at the disco, asking her to do him a favour and take photos of the bastards who are following him closely. Soon he has the pictures and Cora calls him. They have sex because, according to her, she hadn’t done it even with two husbands. She gives herself away when she gets dressed, pointing out to the police chief that he was making a big fuss over a cat. Verrazzano never said that Ciro was a cat. Soon after comes the worst scene in the film, when El Varon or Baron releases two German shepherd dogs, which are supposed to kill or eat Cora. I’ve never seen anything so fake. Maybe with Roth Weiler I would accept it, but not even in the films of Fulci or George Romero. Anyway. Verrazzano chases El Varon in a car to an abandoned fairground and wounds him in the shoulders. He knows that he was Walter’s executioner in the office, as he was the only one who had access to the deceased. But he was following Marco’s orders, and wow, I didn’t see that coming. He was Giulia’s lover, Walter’s own sister. He agreed to have him eliminated because he was squandering the family fortune, but what Giulia didn’t like was that Marco became Cora’s lover, that is, the widow, when he was already Giulia’s lover. Marco dies at point-blank range and Giulia goes to jail.