Tough luck for a hard-working burglar—instead of a safe, his break-in lands him next to a female corpse! Time for his ex-prostitute wife to call on her old arresting officer, Inspector Maigret. But when he arrives, where’s the corpse?
When a demanding single mom disappears after leaving her lover's shop on the Belgian border, Maigret is unofficially called in - by her lover's family. And they, of course, seem to be the top suspects in the case. Maigret must disprove their alibi or find an explanation.
On assignment in the provinces, Maigret acts on a tip to find a distinguished judge dragging a corpse out of his house, presumably to dump in the sea. Bad enough, but now he’s also got a lead to decades-old previously undiscovered murder.
A helpful Montmartre stripper tips off the police that she’s overheard some customers plotting a murder, but when everybody shrugs things off, she’s the one who turns up dead. Maigret starts nosing around to see who the stripper’s off-the-clock actual boyfriend is