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Apr 27, 2015
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While visiting a young criminal on death row before his execution, the condemned man tells Maigret of a man he and another boy had watched dump a body in a Parisian canal six years before. Maigret decides to try to find the man, but has only a few clues. Unexpectedly, he finds the bar and stumbles into a group of people who may lead him to this killer.

Although I generally really like this series, this book just didn't seem to have the cohesiveness that others in the series do. The character of Maigret did not come through as strongly as usual, and the plot just seemed a bit disjointed in parts.
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