A locked room mystery, an industrialist plotting a coup and battling artists all form part of Inspector LeBrock's latest adventure in Grandville. Automatons stalk the streets and doughy-faced humans march for equal rights and the Inspector deduces punches kicks and shoots his way through to the heart of the conspiracy, and we discover that not only was the female character in the first volume fridged, he actually came with a pre-fridged wife in what appears to be one a number of set-ups for future plot-lines. It's all gorgeously drawn fun with lots of little throw-away jokes and it does at least have a female character who survives to the end of the volume. Two, even.