Title: Maigret chez le coroner
First published: 1954
Description: Chief Superintendent Margret finds himself, to his own surprise, attending an inquest in Tucson. Arizona, deposited there by an American colleague front the FBI. It in his first taste of the American judicial system, and he finds it strange indeed.

Bessie Mitchell had been found dead on the railroad tracks between Tucson and Nogales. That night she had been in a car with a group of lusty young men. four of whom had been manifestly clouds. Why had they abandoned Bessie in the desert? Obviously the men were covering up for each other. Margret was boiling to get the truth out of them, French style. But this was the United States. 

While the coroner does his questioning. Margret runs an internal commentary on two different cultures and systems, adding humor and an intriguing perspective to a complex murder mystery.
Subjects: Fiction, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction, Paris (france), fiction, Detective and mystery stories, Kriminalfall
Places: France, Paris, Paris (France), Arizona, Tucson
People: Jules Maigret (Fictitious character)
LC classification: PQ2637.I53 M2557 1970, PQ2637.I53 M25613, PQ2637.I53 M255713 1980