A young woman reports to the police that she has overheard a threat of murder. Is she lying or telling the truth?

Xavier Marton is a toy salesman - a mild, likeable, very ordinary little man. Is his fantastic story of premeditated murder and violent revenge the wild fancy of a sick mind, or the cunning of a subtle criminal?

Sad Freddie, the burglar, is missing.... He has run away. Out on a job one night, he finds a good deal more than his hoped-for loot.

Maigret is faced with a somewhat ironic situation when his revolver is stolen and seems likely to be used for attempted murder.

Conflicting reports of a servant-girl's death from two members of the same family take Inspector Maigret to Normandy to probe the secret lives of charming Madame Besson and her not-so-charming children.

No one knows what William Brown does when each month he goes to Cannes and disappears for several days. One day, however, he returns with a knife in his back.

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 Sancerre.

The savage murder of one of the 'characters' living on the sun-drenched Mediterranean island of Porquerolles provides a change of scene for Inspector Maigret.

Professor Gouin is a brilliant surgeon, but as Maigret says, 'He just doesn't understand what makes people tick.' Caught in the drama of murder, he finds that love at least cannot be diagnosed.

The serenity of a convent hospital provides a background to tragedy and violence when Maigret's holiday is marred by his wife's attack of appendicitis.

Maigret runs into the tough methods of American gunmen when a racketeer called Luigi sends two of his hoodlums to France to rub out an informer, Mascarelli.

Lapointe is shot while on duty outside Mlle Clement's apartment house in a backwater of Paris, and Maigret takes up temporary residence there in order to track down his young protege's attacker.

A man acting suspiciously in a cafe arouses Maigret's curiosity and leads him to investigate the lives of three apparently respectable citizens.