Inspector Maigret

Maigret finds himself drawn into an unsavory world of political corruption, scandal and cover ups when he is summoned to a clandestine meeting by a desperate government minister one evening.

Contains: "Death of a Harbour-Master" and "The Man From Everywhere".

The mood of the town was still jittery. It was all very well for people to go about their day-to-day activities as usual, there was a certain anxiety in people's eyes and they seemed to be walking faster, as if they were afraid the murderer would suddenly appear. Maigret would have sworn the housewives didn't normally stand around on the doorsteps talking in hushed tones.

When a charming elderly widow appeals to him for help, Inspector Maigret travels to a seaside village in Normandy - uncovering a lost fortune and some poisonous family politics.

A man comes to the Police Judiciare claiming that he has seen a note left on a cafe table with a warning; it states a fortuneteller will be murdered that day at five o'clock. A young woman who makes her living as a fake clairvoyant turns up murdered, but things are never what they seem in Simenon novels.

She wasn't an ordinary supplicant. She didn't lower her eyes. There was nothing humble about her bearing. She spoke frankly, looking straight ahead, as if to claim what was rightfully hers. "If you don't agree to look at our case, my parents and I will be lost, and it will be the most hateful legal error."