Maigret and the Dead Lover

Maigret hurries to the Quai d'Orsay alongside Lieutenant Janvier, where they discover Mademoiselle Larrieu badly shaken. That morning, she had found the bullet-riddled corpse of Mr. Berthier-Lagès, a celebrated former ambassador she had served as housekeeper for 46 years. Searching his flat, the two men come across hundreds of letters—evidence of a fifty-year romance by correspondence with a Princess of Vuynes, whose own husband had died only days before, an eerie coincidence. As Maigret faces both families and Mademoiselle Larrieu's guarded silence, his certainties collapse one by one, until the truth strikes him at the final moment.