In Maigret Sets a Trap, Maigret comes under pressure from his superiors and the press to catch a serial killer of women with no common feature except their hair. Making no progress Maigret sets a trap using undercover police women. Maigret's Dead Man focuses on the murder of a gambler with connections to a brutal gang from Czechoslovakia whose members are robbing and killing wealthy Parisians.
It's 1955, and Paris is enjoying a blisteringly hot summer... but it's a city in the grip of fear. Four women have been murdered and Chief Inspector Maigret is under huge pressure to find the killer.
Maigret's Dead Man focuses on the murder of a gambler with connections to a brutal gang from Czechoslovakia whose members are robbing and killing wealthy Parisians.