MAIGRET AND THE DEAD LOVER

Inspector Maigret is urgently summoned to the Quai d’Orsay: a former ambassador has been found shot dead by his long-serving housekeeper. But rather than contact the police, she has followed diplomatic protocols by first informing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Forewarned that he will find a series of salacious letters – and cautioned to be discreet - Maigret heads to the victim’s opulent apartment. He finds no forensic evidence at the crime scene, but certainly, the letters prove startling – secret, decades-spanning correspondence between the ambassador and the Princess of Vuynes, whose own husband, by strange coincidence, has also just died...