num_pages: 184
description: Maigret becomes entangled in the dramas of a small town on his quest to solve the murder of their former postmistress. The forty-fourth book in the new Penguin Maigret series.Maigret is called from his usual duties in Paris to investigate a murder in a small village located close to La Rochelle. A local postmistress has been killed and suspicion has fallen on the local schoolmaster. When Maigret gets there, he discovers a very inward-looking community of people who hated the victim because she knew all their secrets. Maigret must determine if one of those secrets was enough to make someone into a killer.
language: Multiple languages
title: Maigret Goes to School
titlecomplete: Maigret Goes to School (English and French Edition)
characters: Joseph Gastin, Dr.  Xavier Bresselles, Germaine Gastin, Armande Bresselles, Louis Paumelle, Jules Maigret, Lieutenant Daniélou, Léonie Birard, Thérèse (Maigret Goes to School), Marcel Sellier, Joseph Rateau, Théo Coumar, Marcellin Rateau, Jean-Paul Gastin
genres: France, Noir, Mystery, Detective, Thriller, 20th Century, Fiction, Belgian, Mystery Thriller, Crime
ratings_count: 997
places: France, Saint-André-sur-Mer
series: Inspector Maigret
publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers