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In an excellent courtroom drama, Maigret needs to explain why he doesn't genuinely believe that Gaston Meurant was with the capacity of slitting his cousin's neck for the money and obstructing a little kid. However in preserving him from the gallows, Maigret should reveal some dark secrets about Meurantis existence. This can be a story of an oppressive domestic misfortune and the insight of the remarkable detective. 'A genuinely fantastic author,marvellously readable - lucid, easy, definitely in tune with that world he produces of run-down motels, chilly, dark barges, quayside canal-taverns, lurking prostitutes, pot-bellied burghers, taciturn youngsters, slippery barmenwi - Muriel Spark, "Sunday Times".