Maigret at the Coroner's (Inspector Maigret)

In the sweltering Arizona desert, Maigret can’t help but investigate the death of a teenage girl—even if it means questioning the stories of five men in uniform.

Maigret is touring the United States, studying their methods, when he drops by a Tucson courtroom to watch a coroner’s inquest. To his surprise, he is transfixed by the case. Seventeen-year-old Bessie Mitchell, out on a drunken night with five airmen, was run over by a train. None of the men’s stories match—but who is lying, and why...