When the wealthy owner of a pharmaceutical company is shot and killed at his desk with a plundered safe behind him, Maigret wonders if it was just a robbery gone wrong. Whatever it was, he's convinced the answer lies down the block, where the victim's ex-wife and her husband, his girlfriend and his wastrel son all live.
Maigret is dispatched on a special murder case to the South of France with instructions from a very high source not to make waves while solving the crime. The homicide victim, an Australian ex-pat, was a hero in the French Resistance.
A child while is going to church to make an altar boy sees a corpse in the street. No one else sees that corpse, and two minutes later, that corpse is disappeared. Later the child claims to have invented the story. Maigret must find out, first of all, if the corpse is really existed or if it is a lie of the child.
Maigret investigates a series of murders in a small town.
Four serial murders in the Marais district of Paris. Maigret sets a trap. Pretending to have arrested the assassin, he sends trained plainclothes policewomen out at night as bait. Maigret hopes that the killer's pride will force him to act.
What began as a short trip to question an innkeeper in the Vendee turns into days as Inspector Maigret gets confined to the inn with the flu. Then, a guest is found murdered. The police cordon off the inn and begin a careful reconstruction of events, while Maigret conducts his own investigation.
Maigret must play a long waiting game to catch a big-time crook.
Louis Thouret is knifed to death in Paris, and Maigret must find out who did it.
Murder occurs in a family that has fallen from Grace. Maigret is on the case.
Someone is out to get Maigret into trouble, and he must defend himself vigorously.
A death at a luxury hotel gives Maigret plenty of additional headaches when one of the wealthy suspects proves to have a lot of local influence.
Maigret investigates a murder at a crossroads in rural France. Everybody has something to hide, and he's got to find the guilty one.
Maigret is called to the canal St Martin; a headless body has been found. He finds a café nearby with an uncommunicative owner.
A stripper starts to report a murder that has not yet happened, but leaves before making the report official. She is found murdered that morning. Complicating matters is the relationship she had with one of Maigret's assistants.
Maigret observes a man dragging a corpse along the ground at night. The man is a judge; Maigret must discover the identity of the dead man.
Maigret is sent at the Border with Belgium to investigate on a shady affair.