IM 38 : Maigret and the Tall Woman

“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction with passion as with reason.” —John Le CarréA visit from a tall thin woman he arrested many years ago—now married to a hapless burglar—leads Maigret on a tortuous investigation in which he struggles with a formidable suspect. A face from Maigret's past reappears to tell him about the misadventures of her husband a safecracker nicknamed “Sad Freddie” who discovered a dead body while committing a burglary and fled the scene in a panic. In a race against the clock Maigret must use his full arsenal of investigative methods to solve the crime.