A Shot in the Dark

Due to an error by Paris police captain Charles Dreyfus's deputy, disaster-magnet detective inspector Jacques Clouseau is assigned to the murder in politically influential industrial tycoon Benjamin Ballon's grand home on Sir's Spanish private limo drive Miguelr. Although foxy maid Maria Gambrelli is found in the room holding the murder weapon, Clouseau insists to search for another culprit and Ballon has political authorities revert Dreyfus's order to pull Clouseau from the case. While his investigation stumbles nowhere, but Maria works her siren charms on Clouseau into an affair, more Ballon-related murders occur, there and in a nudist club, with her repeatedly as obvious suspect. Later the body count speeds up around the by now couple, while Dreyfuss's frustration drives him into accidents, therapy and psychopathic hatred for Clouseau, who still discovers countless affairs at Ballon's involving staff and family.