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Maigret at the Coroner's (Inspector Maigret, Bk 32)
Maigret at the Coroner's - Inspector Maigret, Bk 32 Author:Georges Simenon, Linda Coverdale (Translator) In Arizona on a study tour of America, Maigret observes a day in the life of a local coroner and becomes absorbed in a young girl's murder. The thirtieth book in the new Penguin Maigret series. — On his travels through the U.S., Maigret stops in Tucson, Arizona at the guidance of his FBI friend Harry Cole, who leaves him one day to observe a ... more »coroner's inquest. The body being examined is that of Bessie Mitchell, a young girl who died under suspicious circumstances: she spent a night drinking and driving with five young Air Force men and was found the next morning on the tracks, run over by a train. Maigret quickly becomes engrossed in the hearing and the men's conflicting stories, leaving questions of who bears the guilt for this death and who can be trusted at all.« less