The second in the series of reissues of Georges Simenon's Maigret novels finds the detective traveling outside Paris to investigate a strange death in a hotel: A man has had half his face shot away and also been stabbed in the heart. In this rotten world, Maigret arrives not as an avenging angel but more of a resigned observer. The case will get solved, as usual, but the result is not cause for relief, much less celebration.
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