Maigret's Doubts (aka Maigret has Scruples)

✍ Scribed by Simenon, Georges

• Book ID: 110454761
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Series: Inspector Maigret 52
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780141985909

✦ Synopsis

An unusually quiet day for Maigret at the Quai des Orfèvres is disturbed by a visit from mild-mannered toy salesman, Xavier Manton. Maigret is puzzled by Manton's admission that he suspects his wife of plotting to poison him and when he receives a visit from Mme Manton later that day he is not sure who to trust. Maigret heeds the advice of his seniors and investigates the couple and when a body is discovered everyone, including Maigret, is surprised.

Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret Has Scruples.

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