“The Runaway Notary” is a brilliant detective story by the French writer Eugene Chavette, a contemporary and follower of Alexandre Dumas and Emile Gaboriau. The main character of the novel, the artist Paul Libois, examining the surroundings of Montmartre from a telescope, notices a blond beauty in one of the windows. In an attempt to find her, he finds himself drawn into the investigation of a terrible crime committed in Clange Castle. The disappearance of the old notary, who took on the role of a just avenger, and with him an impressive amount of money, is only the beginning in a chain of fatal events in which all the inhabitants of the castle will become participants. .