“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction with passion as with reason. ” —John Le Carré A story of love and obsession featuring a most memorable femme fatale starring the intrepid Inspector Maigret & 160; Peg Leg Lapie a crusty old sailor is found mysteriously murdered in a most incongruous setting: a picturesque cottage near Paris where he lived attended only by his young housekeeper Félicie. But Lapie was not alone—Maigret chief inspector of the Paris police is sure of it. A man at work in his garden wearing clogs and a straw hat does not suddenly drop his tools to go indoors and fetch a bottle of brandy to drink alone in the summerhouse. There must have been another glass that someone removed. But Félicie in her red hat trimmed with an iridescent feather proves a champion adversary as skilled in innuendo and evasion as Maigret is in deduction. Language: English