Title: La nuit du carrefour
First published: 1931
Description: A classic among Simenons, this is the story of Maigret's night vigil at the Three Widows' Crossroads, where the body of a Jewish diamond-merchant had been found. Pompous M. Michonnet, at one house, owned the car containing the corpse; aristocratic Carl Andersen, the Dane, owned the garage containing the car; and vulgar M. Oscar, at the service-station, simply sold petrol to all-comers. None of them knew a thing. Then the victim's widow is shot dead at Maigret's feet, and he plunges into action to uncover a tight little criminal web with a woman at the center of it.
Subjects: Fiction, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction, Paris (france), fiction, Fiction, crime, Detective and mystery stories, French fiction, Mystery fiction, mystery, thriller, Kriminalfall, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), France, fiction, German language, Study and teaching, German literature
Places: France, Paris, Paris (France)
People: Maigret
LC classification: PZ3.S5892 Cro, PQ2637.I53 Cro