num_pages: 192
description: Inspector Maigret must untangle the web of lies left behind by a murdered man whose family didnt know him as well as they thought. The forty-first book in the new Penguin Maigret series.When a man is found stabbed to death in an alley off Boulevard Saint-Martin his identity card shows a workplace that had gone out of business three years earlier. As far as his wife knew he still worked there and she insists that the shoes and a tie he was wearing when he was killed couldnt be his. It soon becomes evident that although he had a source of income he spent most of his time sitting on a bench in the neighborhood often with the same unknown man. Can Maigret find him?
language: English
title: Maigret and the Man on the Bench
publisher: Penguin Books