Maigret's Childhood Friend

''The father of contemporary European detective fiction'' Ann Cleeves

''Florentin pulled one of those faces which had once amused his classmates so much and disarmed the teachers . . .

Maigret didn''t dare to ask why he had come to see him. He studied him, struggling to believe that so many years had passed . . .

He was so used to acting the fool that his face automatically assumed comical expressio...