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Maigrets heißester Fall: Der Kommissar ermittelt an der mexikanischen Grenze. Maigret ist auf Studienreise in Amerika. Über New York ist er bis nach Tucson, Arizona, gereist. Alles ist dort ungewohnt: die Hitze, die Drinks vor den Mahlzeiten, die Sprache und auch die Vernehmungstaktik des Coroners im Gerichtssaal. Fünf Air-Force-Sergeants sind mit der minderjährigen Bessy Mitchell zur mexikanischen Grenze gefahren, aber ohne sie zurückgekehrt. Doch Maigret wäre nicht Maigret, wenn er nicht seine eigenen Schlüsse ziehen würde.

The death of a homeless man in a condemned building in Les Halles leads Maigret on the trail of the vagrant's mysterious past and an event that happened years ago in the close-knit community of Montmartre.

The attempted suicide of a countess and the death of a billionaire in the same luxury Paris hotel send Maigret to the Riviera and then to Switzerland, as he searches for the truth amid the glittering world of the super rich. Eyes half closed, head tilted against the back of his seat, he seemed not to be thinking, as the plane flew over a thick carpet of bright clouds. In reality, he was making an effort to bring names and shadowy figures to life, names and figures that even this morning had been as unknown to him as the inhabitants of another planet.

In book 39 of the new Penguin Maigret, the inspector learns that his hapless colleague Lognon is being menaced by some notorious American mobsters, and he makes it his mission to bring them to justice - despite threatening warnings that he is out of his depth. This story has been published in a previous translation as Inspector Maigret and the Killers.