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A man who owed a lot of people money is thought to have committed suicide when his lifeless body is discovered moments after a shot is fired. Clues lead Maigret to suspect homicide, but it'll be hard to prove it.

A prostitute is found murdered on the third floor of a respectable building on Avenue Carnot.

The inexplicable murder of the wealthy Valentine Besson's maid leads the older woman to believe that she herself was the intended target.

Maigret travels to Belgium for an off-the-record investigation he's doing as a favor, and keeps running across an ex-police investigator.

A man is stabbed to death with a hat pin in a first-class train car near the Franco-Belgian border. Novice inspector Paul Lachenal gets called in to investigate and goes to his Uncle Maigret for assistance.

A powerful businessman complains of having received menacing letters and asks Maigret for protection. Maigret knew him when he was a boy and finds him just as unpleasant as he remembered.

Maigret must find the connection between the mugging of a rich businessman, the death of a young man and the murder of a local workman.

The body of a homeless man is discovered in a garden owned by two sisters who've been locked in a bitter dispute since 1924. Maigret thinks they have the key to solving the mystery, but getting past their animosity will be the first challenge.

Inspector Maigret is determined to prove the innocence of a man sentenced to death for the murders of an American woman and her maid.

In his investigation into the fatal stabbing of a hard-drinking Australian man, Maigret meets two women who were central in the dead man's life: his mistress and her mother.