The Catman of Paris 1946 Author Charles Regnier returns to 1896 Paris after exotic travels, having written a bestseller which the Ministry of Justice would like to ban That very night, an official is killed in the dark streets clawed to death The prefect of police suspects some sort of were cat but Inspector Severen thinks theres nothing supernatural about Regniers motive And Regnier has increasing doubts about himself when he has another hallucinatory blackout during the second killing