Maigret and the Informer

“You see, I mainly work at night. I've ended up getting to know everybody. They're used to me in Pigalle, I exchange a few words with this person or that person. I go into the bars and cabarets where they give me a quarter bottle of Vichy without waiting for me to order anything.”

An anonymous tip-off regarding the death of a restaurant owner in sends Police Detective Inspector Maigret into the world of Parisian nightlife, a notorious criminal gang, and a man known as “the Flea.”

This novel has been pubished in a previous translation as Maigret and the Flea.