A quick and fun read about a series of murders in a French provincial town, into which Maigret is painfully plunged by happenstance. It's an example of the crime-genre trope of the invalided detective who must solve the crime from their sickbed, and disentangling the actual clues from the parochial gossip brought to his convalescent room exercises Maigret's fevered mind. Mrs Maigret is rather active in this case: I like her 🙂