"Either I'm getting in the way of someone I'm on, or at least someone who thinks so... Any idea who that might be, Manuel?"

Maigret has never experienced this in his thirty-year career with the police! When a frightened girl, Nicole, suddenly asks for his help, he acts like a gentleman and gets the DA's drunken daughter to safety. The next day, however, he is accused of attempted rape, and the young police prefect, whose arrogant behavior the commissioner hates to death, puts him off duty. Maigret realizes that he has fallen into a trap. But who set her up on him? Despite the ban, he is forced to search on his own. Everything points to the fact that the cunning gangster Manuel Palmari, whom he has long suspected of stealing jewels from Parisian jewelry stores, is involved in the affair.

The characters of the gangster Palmari and his wife Alina also appear in the freely connected novella Maigret's Patience.

performer: Jan Vlasák
length of recording: 4 hours 17 minutes