A small French summer resort has, in winter, become the gloomy scene of a series of murder attempts. While his assistant uses 'scientific' means of detection, Maigret relies on his instincts, which lead him past a succession of charcters to the real culprit.

Book four of the Inspector Maigret series. On a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly causes a man's suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself.

L'inspecteur Lognon, aussi appele l'inspecteur Malchanceux par le commissaire Maigret, est gravement blesse une nuit, quand il quitte l'appartement d'une jeune femme, Marinette augier. Il parait que Lognon etait sur une grosse affaire et passait des nuits a observer quelque chose ou quelqu'un par la fenetre de l'appartement de Marinette Augier, mais quoi ou qui? La concierge de l'immeuble avu Lognon sur le trottoir apres les coups de feu, et le seul...

Une nuit, un clochard de soixante-trois ans est retire de la Seine au centre de Paris par deux mariniers. A l'hopital, le medecin constate qu'il a ete frappe a la tete avant d'etre jete a l'eau. Le clochard s'appelle le toubib, car il a ete medecin a Mulhouse. Un jour, il a quitte sa femme et sa fille pour aller soigner les noirs en Afrique. Sa femme est maintenant tres riche, parce qu'elle a herite d'une tante. Elle habite un grand appartement a...

A mild-mannered man visits Maigret, accusing his wife of wanting to poison him. Maigret then gets a visit from the man's wife, who accuses him of being neurotic. Is Maigret watching a domestic spat unfold, or is it a murder in the making?

Based on George Simenon's classic detective novels and starring Michael Gambon, is equipped with rigorous logic, uncanny judgment of character, and, of course, his signature pipe and fedora. Inspector Maigret relishes the challenge of solving any mystery. Filled with dangerous crimes and elusive characters from the villages of rural France to the alleyways of Montmarte. Brings the most intriguing and complex puzzles from Simenon's anthology to the...