When young woman Arlette is found dead, Maigret feels bad because she had gone to the police for help but he wasn’t able to get her to trust and confide in him. He says, “I’m the one responsible, but I’m going to find the man who killed her”.
She worked at Fred’s club; he’s a real pig, but his wife Rosa stays with him because she’s grateful that he never asked anything about anyone’s past (good for him, because it seemed to me like he was one of those stupid men that actually need their wife - he says something about that - and yet constantly risks losing her because he’s an idiot - other than a disgusting pig). This is why Rosa keeps giving girls on the run a job and a safe place, although she “can’t protect them from everything” , meaning her molesting husband.
Arlette grew up with very shitty relations and people around, poor thing.
When Lapointe sees Arlette’s body, he goes OMG but Maigret didn’t seem to notice.... later he’s almost in tears and Janvier only asks “what’s up?”... I mean, detectives huh? :-/
A countess was killed first. Maigret asks for his wife’s help, “you’re a very clever woman” :-)
Grasshopper sold Maigret to the killer; he’s not killed of course, but taken away from the club. Fred is killed, Rosa is tied up. Marie saw the count’s cruelty, and with the countess they threw him out the window. Oskar saw it and blackmailed them and turned her into a prostitute. The countess paid him but when she was out of money she moved to Paris, with a new ID card for Marie. Rosa tried to stop the killer, stabbed him, and saw him. He killed Arlette because she wouldn’t go back to him. Lapointe kills the murderer.
At the end, we see that Mrs Maigret obviously didn’t burn his letters; she told him she did because she was crossed that he didn’t show up at the marriage rehearsal, or very late I don’t know, but of course she didn’t. Come on, she couldn’t have.
ITA Maigret al Picratt’s
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