Sporting his pipe that seems a nod to Sherlock Holmes, the pragmatic Maigret investigates murders in his unurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth. Against a backdrop of 1950s Paris and the surrounding French countryside, these original feature-length films pay homage to one of the most brilliant detective minds of the twentieth century.
Early one morning, a 12-year-old choirboy witnesses a murder and then flees the scene. The police can't find any evidence and only Inspector Maigret takes the boy seriously. But why do parts of his story not check out?
In his investigation into the fatal stabbing of a hard-drinking Australian man, Maigret meets two women who were central in the dead man's life: his mistress and her mother.
On vacation in the south of France, Maigret is faced with the sudden appearance of a dead body and the disappearance of a wealthy art dealer. Who is Mr. Owen, and why are so many of the hotel guests behaving so strangely?
Assuming the identity of a salesman, Maigret goes undercover and gets a room in a boarding house so he can observe a woman who's living there with her children. She's a pharmacist's wife on the run, who claims her missing husband is a killer.
The body of a homeless man is discovered in a garden owned by two sisters who've been locked in a bitter dispute since 1924. Maigret thinks they have the key to solving the mystery, but getting past their animosity will be the first challenge.
