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.
A man is stabbed to death with a hat pin in a first-class train car near the Franco-Belgian border. Novice inspector Paul Lachenal gets called in to investigate and goes to his Uncle Maigret for assistance.
Working with his nephew on the investigation of the murder of a seemingly ordinary accountant, Maigret finds that the man's life was not as simple as would appear on the surface.
While an inspector from Scotland Yard is staying with Maigret to observe his methods, Maigret receives word from the island of Porquerolles... of the murder of an ex-con who claims to have been his friend.
A man who owed a lot of people money is thought to have committed suicide when his lifeless body is discovered moments after a shot is fired. Clues lead Maigret to suspect homicide, but it'll be hard to prove it.
