Mr Monk is Miserable Author:Lee Goldberg On a return trip from Germany, Monk and Natalie stop over in Paris. They visit the catacombs -- a vast underground cavern in the center of the city, lined with millions of human bones. Monk picks up a skull and announces that the person was murdered. Most of the bodies came from a battlefield, but Monk believes the wound that killed the man came... more » from a modern weapon made in the last few years. He thinks someone hid a recent murder victim among the ancient bones. As Monk starts to investigate the crime, he uncovers another murder that involves a society of "dumpster divers", people who live commerce-free of the waste of society. It might just be the last straw in Monk's visit to Paris...