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One of the few Maigrets with a major role for Madame Maigret, in meeting two of the protagonists early on, then taking independent action behind Maigret's back in order to identify a character when the (male) police have not the nous! Great fun, as well as a wonderful picture of the small and vulnerable characters of Paris.

The GR blurb is:

"In The Friend of Madame Maigret, Simenon's economic prose brilliantly portrays the Marais quarter of Paris and those who haunt its narrow streets as Inspector Maigret attempts to prove that a murder has actually been committed without a corpse anywhere to be found. As the investigation becomes increasingly complex, seemingly unconnected characters are drawn into the case, and Maigret begins to wonder if his wife's earlier strange encounter with a woman and her baby may be the missing link."