Maigret Set One

This set gathers three Inspector Maigret novels written from the 1950s to 1970. In one, the detective is drawn unofficially into politics when a minister loses a suppressed engineers' report on a disaster that killed children, and a parliamentary feud turns on who holds the paper. In another, a timid tradesman who has talked of killing his wife and her lover vanishes from a suburban house. In the third, a wealthy wine merchant is shot leaving a discreet address, and Maigret works through the man's mistresses, employees, and enemies. Across the three books the method is patient interview in Paris rooms rather than chase. The set is a trio of self-contained investigations, not one serial plot.

Bound in cloth printed and blocked with a design by the artist. Frontispiece and 4 black and white woodblock illustrations in each volume. Novelty endpapers. Blocked slipcase. Across three volumes.