num_pages: 182
description: Maigret stumbles upon a series of murders in Fontenay-le-Comte while visiting an old school friend. The forty-second book in the new Penguin Maigret series.On his way home from a conference, Maigret stops to visit an old school friend in Fontenay-le-Comte. A man in the same train car introduces himself and asks if Maigret has come to help solve the murder case. In fact, the man’s brother-in-law had been murdered four days earlier, followed by the murder of a local widow in the same way, a blow to the head with a pipe. While Maigret is in town, a third murder is reported. Maigret soon discovers that there are two warring factions in the town, a clear class separation, and an air of suspicion that only he can put to rest.
language: English
title: Maigret Afraid
titlecomplete: Maigret Afraid (English and French Edition)
characters: Arsène (Maigret), Gobillard, Lucile Courçon, Robert de Courçon, Widow Gibon, Isabele Vernoux, Jeanne Vernoux, Inspector Féron, Madame Chabot, Léontine Page, Jules Maigret, Hubert Vernoux de Courçon, Émile Chalus, Lomel, Alain Vernoux, Louise Maigret, Julien Chabot
genres: France, Noir, Mystery, Novels, Detective, Thriller, French Literature, Fiction, Belgian, Crime
ratings_count: 904
places: Fontenay-le-Comte, France
series: Inspector Maigret
publisher: Harcourt