Part police procedural, part psychological thriller, and part Hercule Poirot, Maigret and the Killer is a fast read that keeps your attention from the first sentence to the last and never insults your intelligence.
A young man has been stabbed and dies before he can identify his assailant. Maigret, nearing retirement in the late 1960s, has a case that is beyond a simple question of guilt and innocence.