Inspector Maigret on the trail of another crime in the audiobook Maigret and Crime in the Village
"Women and children have the ability to create half-lives." (Maigret)
It wasn't just a taste for oysters and white regional wine that prompted the commissioner to set off alongside the frightened teacher to Saint-André, a small village on the west coast of France. There was also the similarity of the place to the one Maigret knew so well... And of course the murder of Leonie Birard, of which Joseph Gastin, who was present here, was suspected. But is he really responsible for the death of the strange old woman, or did the locals just make him a scapegoat?
