Maigret's Dead Man

<p><b>'Compelling remorseless brilliant' John Gray </b> <br><br>Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series.<br><br><i>'That shoeless foot looked incongruous lying on the pavement next to another foot encased in a shoe made of black kid leather. It was naked private . . . It was Maigret who retrieved the other shoe which lay by the kerb six or seven metres away'<br></i><br>A series of strange phone calls leads Inspector Maigret through the Paris streets towards a man out of his depth amid a network of merciless criminals.<br><br>This novel has been published in a previous translation as <i>Maigret's Special Murder.</i><br><br>'His artistry is supreme' John Banville<br><br>'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' <i>Independent</i></p>