Inspector Maigret, after ruling out the possibility of professional murder and having his spotless reputation called into question, solves the perplexing murder of a nightclub owner who at first glance seems to have no enemies. Translated by Robert Eglesfield. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.
Paris in June. Things are quiet on the crime front. At least until Émile Boulay, owner of night-clubs in Montmartre and on the Champs-Élysées, is strangled and dumped near Père Lachaise cemetery. Who would want to knock off a kind-hearted hard-working cabaret owner? And why?