Maigret's Failure (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780241303788)

"A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason." --John Le Carré

When a childhood bully reappears in Maigret's life, he struggles to put aside his own feelings and carry out his duties as an investigator.

When Ferdinand Fumal, a wealthy butcher and political influencer, starts receiving anonymous death threats, he fears for his life, and Maigret is ordered to his protection. But upon meeting the man, Maigret realizes that Fumal was among the childhood bullies who tormented him as a boy. Maigret's instinct is to pawn the job off on another officer--until Fumal turns up the next morning brutally slain that is. Racked with guilt, Maigret finds himself being blamed for the murder, and so must go about the agonizing task of bringing the murdered butcher's killer to justice.

Author: Georges Simenon
ISBN-10: 0241303788
ISBN-13: 9780241303788
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 06/05/2018
Pages: 176
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.50d