Welcome to Litsy!

Maigret investigates the stabbing in an alley of an unassuming man leading a double life, despised by his wife and family, held in affection by past co-workers and acquaintances. The mystery of how he funded this life forms a principle strand of Maigret's enquiries.
Cold, torrential, late-autumnal rain and humid, overheated rooms infuse the atmosphere, with the inspector brooding ruefully on the "quiet desperation" of the lives he encounters.

I'm starting to run out of the libraries' inventories of Maigret novels, which is a shame as I've not read half of them yet. It does mean that I'm reading this LARGE PRINT edition due to availability, and somewhat previous to necessity because of my aging vision 🤓
The opening of the plot is a mystery staple: if the dead man's employer went bust years ago, what has he been doing all the time he told his wife he was going into work? 🤔