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Book four of the Inspector Maigret series. On a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly causes a man's suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself.

Con man Max O'Brien takes a personal investigation into his own hands. Max O'Brien's nightmare has begun again. Eleven years after the tragic disappearance of his brother, an ambassador in Central America, Max's nephew, also a diplomat, is assassinated in New Delhi. Max is on the run from police, and this time the professional con man decides to find those responsible for the crime. Determined to track down the truth, he arrives in India just as the...

An idyllic family vacation turns into a living nightmare for parents Paul and Wendy when their young daughter disappears without a trace. When the local sheriff fails to chase down any new leads, the frantic parents have no choice but to take matters into their own hands. As tensions mount and the list of suspects grows, the search for the truth leads to a shocking revelation where nothing is what it seems in this gripping psychological thriller.

Maigret, accompanying his physician on an emergency call, is drawn into one of his most stubborn cases yet. The victim, a son of a wealthy perfume manufacturer, had been enjoying an odd hobby before his death: collecting human voices with a tape recorder, often in the rougher districts of Paris. But his wallet and his tape recorder have been left untouched, so the killer's motive is unclear. The absence of clues begins to exasperate Maigret until...

A small French summer resort has, in winter, become the gloomy scene of a series of murder attempts. While his assistant uses 'scientific' means of detection, Maigret relies on his instincts, which lead him past a succession of charcters to the real culprit.

"Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl--the fortieth prisoner--sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange...

In the south of France, three old men have died of the same spider venom. The recluse has a strong bite, but Inspector Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg is unconvinced it's the cause of their deaths. His colleagues determine it an open-and-shut case, but the inspector believes a more sinister actor is behind the incidents. Adamsberg soon learns that two of the three men had grown up in the same orphanage. At La Miséricorde Children's Home just outside Nîmes,...

Something has got Aurel Timescu's attention: an unsolved and apparently unsolvable crime. A vacationer has been found hanged. And it is a crime that will go unpunished if Aurel isn't ready for the fight of his life. Aurel Timescu's French is tinged with a Romanian accent, he has the disheveled air of a character from between the wars, and a past as a performer in piano bars. Nobody can quite understand how he got to be Consul. Now, he's taken a position...