Open a book of New Mysteries of Marseille is like the promise of great happiness. It's like the beginning of a special day, a day of celebration when we must receive friends we have not seen for months, there have been waiting and finally the big day happened. The weather is looking good, we guess we're going to a great day. This is what happened with the stranger at the Grand Hotel where we meet with obvious pleasure our dear friends: the reporter Raoul Signoret, his wife Cecilia, always ready to play the apprentice detective and will be again a little smarter than her husband journalist, their children, Adele and Thomas, two mischievous kids, tending their ears to listen to the conversations of large and BARUTEAU uncle, plagued with the hassle imposed by Clemenceau for the creation of this which will become the famous Tiger Brigades. Through a plot that may seem simple at first, but that is not at all, Jean Contrucci revived, with his customary verve, life Marseille in the early twentieth century, interspersing his narrative of these small true stories collected in the press of the time and distilled sensitively without weighing a plot led large train. In this story might be subtitled "A drama in Bourgeois' Jean Contrucci explores a new area of Marseille, an area" chic ", the Boulevard Longchamp, where behind the facades of houses, plots being hatched sordid. Also we like to get the supporting cast as Auguste Escarguel, the journalist of "facts and misdeeds" always ready to recite his doggerel and seems "land of the moon permanently," without forgetting the recipes cooks Aunt Thérésou as Here, stuffed rockfish small mullet. Jean Contrucci managed to create quite a "small world" of great humanity which one follows the adventures with passion and a smile. Unknown With this the Grand Hotel, the promise I mentioned in the introduction was held brilliantly.