Maigret et l'homme tout seul

By Georges Simenon

Subjects: Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Literatură belgiană de limbă franceză, Maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Roman poliţist, Fiction, Romance literature, French fiction, Paris (france), fiction, France, fiction

Description: It was August and over half of his inspectors, along with most of Paris, are on holiday. Things are fairly quiet. Then Chief Superintendent Maigret receives a telephone call about the murder of an unidentified vagrant near Les Halles, the old central market. The man was found laying on a bed, fully dressed, in an upper room in a long-condemned building. His clothes were those of a tramp, but he had neatly trimmed hair, and mustache with goatee. In addition, his hands were carefully manicured. The few people in the district who recognize his picture admit they don’t actually know him – no one knows his Christian name. So, why did someone track him down in his lair, and who?