Maigret

M Couchet is found murdered in his office – his safe rifled. There were three women in his life: wife, ex-wife, and mistress. Is the thief the murderer also?

Omer Calas had gone to the country to buy wine. He was still away when, in the river a few yards from his bistro, a dismembered corpse was discovered. Can Maigret find Calas?

Fumal, an old schoolfellow of Maigret's and now a wealthy meat-trader, asks for police protection: and needs it!

A dropped railway ticket... a mud-stained car... a frightened voice on the telephone – these are the clues in a puzzling crime that puts Maigret on the trail of a ruthless gang of murderers.

A self-evident suicide, that of the jewel dealer who shot himself while telephoning the police. The trouble is, something exactly like it had happened before...

Old Joris, a bullet wound in his head, wanders lost and speechless in the maze of Paris. Who shot him? – and who saved his life?