Maigret's Pickpocket Author:Georges Simenon Maigret, the French master detective who vies in international popularity with Sherlock Holmes and James Bond, has been around since 1930, investigating some seventy criminal cases. In Maigret's Pickpocket, Maigret is faced with a world so new and alien to him that he is very nearly fooled. While riding on a fine spring day on the open platform ... more »of a bus, his wallet is stolen. The theft brings him in contact with Francois, who likes to be called Francis, a young man living on the fringes of the movie world. He may be a shiftless sponger or a budding genius; opinions differ. His motivations, his way of life, his contemporaries are a puzzle to Maigret, but one thing is beyond doubt; when Francis came home one night he found his wife murdered. By whom? And why? Maigret almost slips up on this one. (Translated by Nigel Ryan.)« less