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Among the channel carters chanced on the corpse of Mary Lampson, strangled in a reliable close to the lock: the find stepped Maigret in to the world of towpath bars and boats. The girl's husband, a retired Language colonel, was curt and unhelpful up to speed his boat. But progressively Maigret removed a merchant account of the whisky -sodden life they'd brought across the inland waterways of France. It required a pursuit on a confession and the bike from the desperate person to pull together all of the strings of the pitiful and interested tale.