When a one-legged retired clerk nicknamed "Pegleg" is found shot to death at close range in the bedroom of his house in a small provincial town, Maigret questions the middle-aged man's maid, an irreverent, independent and irascible young woman who is reluctant to co-operate with the inspector's inquiries. Her exact relationship with the victim is unclear and she, along with the dead man's brother and saxophonist nephew, become suspects.
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