Maigret and the Dead Girl (Inspector Maigret)

When the body of a nameless young woman is discovered, Maigret must investigate the hidden lives of Paris’s lost girls.

When a young woman is found dead in a rainy square in Montmartre, all Maigret has to go on is a cheap blue evening gown and single shoe. Following the traces of the victim’s final days from dress shops to late-night cafés and lodging houses, Maigret slowly builds up an image of a shy provincial girl who’d arrived in Paris full of hope, and who quickly learned how easy it is...