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Maigret and the Elusive Witness
1997-10-03
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.
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Maigret and the Vanishing Mr. Owen
1997-12-12
Maigret is spending a few days between assignments avoiding a long trip back to Paris and then on again to his next assignment. The seaside resort is run by an acquaintance from earlier days in Paris, Monsieur Louis. Staying at the resort is a art dealer, Monsieur Owen, who is wheelchair bound from MS and accompanied by a nurse. Also staying is a flamboyant actress with her newly acquired second husband and a dog. There is also a gentleman whom Monsieur Louis describes as a "fixer" who "helps" people not favored by Lady Luck at the Casino. A unknown dead man is found in Monsieur Owen's bath with the actress's dead dog. Both the second husband and Monsieur Owen have disappeared. The actress faints; the nurse demures. Maigret who is on vacation and "not involved" even after Monsieur Louis's request for help get interested in the strange actions of the characters.
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Mrs. Four and Her Children
1999-01-15
Maigret goes undercover at a boarding house where a woman with two boys is occupying room number 4, hence Mrs. Quatre/Four. She has fled her home and husband with the boys and is in hiding after seeing a dead woman's body in the conservatory with her husband at night. Her reports to the police have no backing as the body is gone and her husband has also disappeared. Maigret takes on the investigation under the name Mr. Fountaine because a detail referring to a fountain, he believes, gives veracity to her story.
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Murder in a Vegetable Garden
1999-02-05
Maigret travels to Dole after a gun found with a murdered "vagrant" matched one used to kill another "vagrant" under a Paris bridge. There he encounters a pair of feuding sisters, one of whom owns the shed the victim was found in. The feud has been going on for 30 years, the source of which is both clear and muddied at the same time, just like the weather.
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Maigret Sees Double
2000-03-03
Maigret investigates the death of a seemingly boring accountant killed while standing at the bedroom window of his fourth floor flat. The victim had no strong feelings for his wife or his children, and a boring position at a bathroom fixture supplier, and has no friends, therefore, no enemies. His only love was a canary. Maigret calls his young nephew inspector to help find out just who the victim really was. He finds, literally, more of the same. But within that sameness, one difference.
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Maigret and the Little Pigs without Tails
2004-03-29
While assisting the police elsewhere in France, Maigret becomes unofficially involved in a missing persons case involving the husband (Marcel Blanc) of a young woman (Germaine Blanc). She's trying very hard to find her husband who has disappeared under mysterious circumstances, but she is very reticent when speaking about it to Maigret. As he follows her and finally gains her partial trust, the plot begins to expand to include stolen paintings, crooked boxing and a fence who turns out to be Germaine's father.
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A Shadow in the Courtyard
2004-05-28
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.
51
Maigret Rents a Room
2004-12-17
While staking out a boarding-house where is staying Emile Paulus, a suspect, Detective Archambaud is wounded by a bullet shot from an undetermined place. To further the investigation, Maigret, his superior, decides to put up at the boarding-house posing as an ordinary guest. He is welcomed by Mademoiselle Clément, the dignified owner, and soon discovers the various people living in the place. He also takes a special interest in a woman who dwells in a neighboring block of flats, Françoise Boursicault, the lonely crippled wife of a purser most of the time at sea... A common thread through all of them is that... they seem to have something to hide...
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Maigret and the Seven Little Crosses
2005-05-06
Mid-August in Paris, and Maigret is due to leave on vacation. His travel plans get interrupted when a 60-year-old woman is killed in her own apartment. The police suspect it may be the latest murder committed by a serial killer. The same night, anonymous calls for police assistance come in from all over Paris, as if someone's trying to send a cryptic message.
