A case involving a countess's shadowy past draws Chief Inspector Maigret into the world of striptease artists and morphine addicts.

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an irony which

The Inspector must enter the unsavory world of politics to help a conscientious politician. Maigret is secretly summoned by a distraught cabinet minister who ne

“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré When a prominent figure from the Paris restaurant wor

NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA A young cabaret dancer in a black silk dress leads Maigret into a seamy world of nightclubs, drug addiction and exploitation on the street