Maigret and the Informer

<p><b>'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves</b><br><br><b>'</b><i>You see I mainly work at night. I've ended up getting to know everybody. They're used to me in Pigalle I exchange a few words with this person or that person. I go into the bars and cabarets where they give me a quarter bottle of Vichy without waiting for me to order anything.'</i><br><br>An anonymous tip-off regarding the death of a restaurant owner sends Maigret into the world of Parisian nightlife a notorious criminal gang and a man known as 'the Flea'.<br><br>This novel has been pubished in a previous translation as <i>Maigret and the Flea</i>.<br><br> 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century' <i>Guardian</i></p>