“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré

Inspector Maigret loses himself in coastal luxury—and danger—in this devastating mystery set on the French Riviera
“It had a smell of holidays. The previous evening, in Cannes Harbour, with the setting sun, had also had the smell of holidays, especially the Ardena, whose owner swaggered in front of two girls with gorgeous figures...”
Dazzled at first by the glamour of sunny Antibes, Maigret soon finds himself immersed in the less salubrious side of the Riviera as he retraces the final steps of a local eccentric.