Arlette, a Montmartre stripper, rushes into a police station one night to report a planned murder of a mysterious countess. The next morning she withdraws her testimony but is soon found murdered. Was she telling the truth?
Some men will go to almost any lengths to preserve a way of life and provide for their dependants. Such a man was Emile Gallet, found shot in the little town of Sancere.
On the Mediterranean island of Porquerolles, a shabby old drunk is murdered after boasting of his friendship with Inspector Maigret. Maigret remembers him as a small-time pimp he once arrested, long ago - but who killed him?
