13153 Walter J. Black Roslyn, New York, USA Hard Cover Good Tan textured paper on boards. Volume is lightly worn on the edges. Now in protective wrap. "One of Maigret's old "customers", Ernestine Micou, 'Lofty'who he'd arrested 17 years earlier, comes to Maigret to tell of her husband's misadventure. She'd married Alfred Jussiaume, 'Sad Freddie', a safecracker, and while he'd been doing a job in Neuilly, with his usual bad luck, he'd discovered the body of a dead woman and fled. Inspector Maigret investigates the house where a dentist, Guillaume Serre and his mother live, they claim there's been no burglary, and of course, no murder. However Serre's Dutch wife, the former Maria Van Aerts, supposedly left on the day Alfred saw the body, returning indefinitely to Holland. The doctor explains that the newly replaced window pane, which Alfred had presumably removed to break in, was broken in the recent storm. Serre has some explaining to do about that window pane and after several hours of interrogation, Maigret realizes that it was the mother, who had poisoned her husband and Serre's wife; was the son the instigator, the accomplice, or a poor man caught between his wife and his mother $9.00USD
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