num_pages: 170
description: 'Try to imagine a guest a wealthy woman staying at the Majestic with her husband her son a nurse and a governess . . . In a suite that costs more than a thousand francs a day . . . At six in the morning she's strangled not in her room but in the basement locker room'Below stairs at a glamorous hotel on the Champs-lyses the workers' lives are worlds away from the luxury enjoyed by the wealthy guests. When their worlds meet Maigret discovers a tragic story of ambition blackmail and unrequited love.
language: English
title: The Cellars of the Majestic
publisher: Penguin Books