"The matchless French crime novelist" -- Adam Gopnik, The New
Yorker
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was
unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his
brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The
Guardian
A battle of wills between Inspector Maigret and an adversary from the
past
When a friend's brother-in-law is accused of murdering his daughter's
lover, Maigret sets out for a small French town to help and upon arrival
is plunged into an atmosphere of animosity. He soon finds himself
tangled up in a case that may ruin the very people whom he has come to
aid and must face an old enemy--an ex-police officer nicknamed
"Inspector Cadaver"--who seems to be doing everything in his power to
obstruct Maigret's investigations.