Maigret Is Afraid (Inspector Maigret)

A spate of murders sends shock waves through a small rainswept town—where, unfortunately for the killer, Maigret happens to be passing through.

Traveling back from a police congress in Bordeaux, Maigret stops off to see his friend, the investigating magistrate of the small town of Fontenay-Le-Comte. In the past three days, the inspector’s friend tells him, two locals have been bludgeoned to death. On the scene by sheer coincidence, Maigret would rather not get involved—until a third murder o...