Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #98542 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-04
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Synopsis
Inspector Lognon, an embittered but dedicated detective, is shot. To everyone's amazement, it emerges that Lognon had spent the last ten nights in the room of a beautiful young woman - who has disappeared. In retreading Lognon's secretive last days, Maigret is lead into a murky world.

Customer Reviews

A tense mystery in Simenon's clipped, tight prose
This is a very enjoyable mystery. The outcome didn't exactly take my breath away, but there's enough tension in the story to make this well worth reading. The scene in which Maigret interrogates a wealthy art collector and his glamorous wife is brilliantly taut - a real verbal duel between the stubborn yet subtle Maigret and the wily couple, who are hiding dark secrets...