Ted, there is a series of crime novels set in modern, rural France where the local police chief, Bruno, owns a Bassett and he hunts woodcock and other game with it. Bruno drives a 1954 Land Rover and shoots a Purdey both of which he inherited from an elderly English friend who lived in the Perigord region. The Bruno series by Martin Walker is a good read as he does what he can do to prevent enforcement of the rules and regulations of the EU which set out to change centuries old ways of French food production in the rural regions of France. He's a gourmet cook and I gained 10 lbs. reading the series. Bruno is a former French soldier wounded during a UN peace keeping role during the mess in Sarajevo. Gil
