Inspector Cadaver

Maigret's old colleague becomes an unexpected rival in book 24 of the new Penguin Maigret series. In everyone's eyes even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains even the kids just now who had turned to stare after they had passed him he was the intruder the undesirable. No worse he was fundamentally untrustworthy some stranger who had just turned up from who knew where to do who knew what.