Police Inspector Maigret recounts the case of a man accused of the murder of his wife, and Maigret is unable to save the possibly innocent man from the guilloti

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“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré Inspector Maigret finds himself caught in the middle