Maigret's First Case - Inspector Maigret #30

''Compelling, remorseless, brilliant'' John Gray
The profession he had always yearned for did not actually exist ... he imagined a cross between a doctor and a priest, a man capable of understanding another''s destiny at first glance.
The very first investigation by eager young police secretary Jules Maigret leads him to a wealthy Paris family''s dark secrets.
''His artistry is supreme'' John Banville
''One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories'' Guardian