Who killed Captain Fallut? What went on in his claustrophobic cabin that apparently he never left?
Fallut is captain of a fishing trawler whose crew includes a reluctant cabin boy, a poetic radio operator and a gang of drunken low-lifes. The captain is murdered shortly after the ship docks. Sadly the cabin boy has been lost in a storm.
The Maigrets are found sitting on a pebbly beach. Maigret goes for a walk and Mme Maigret is approached by a girl - she turns out to be engaged to the sparks, who has gone missing.
Maigret is really here - with the athletic Lucas - to investigate the captain's murder. Why, we aren't told. Don't they have policemen in Normandy?
It turns out there was another crew member aboard - the voluptuous bar maid from the crewmen's favourite bar/hostel.
She is a salty character with an Irish accent standing in for Breton. The Captain and the sparks were in love with her.
Maigret solves the crime, but no-one is brought to justice. Anyway, it was not the sparks, who is now free to marry his rather plain fiance. She turns up with her father, a mayor and chirps about how Pierre can now study accountancy and perhaps become a mayor himself one day! Yes, he says, I'm already being measured for my chains.
I told you he was a poet.
Fallut is captain of a fishing trawler whose crew includes a reluctant cabin boy, a poetic radio operator and a gang of drunken low-lifes. The captain is murdered shortly after the ship docks. Sadly the cabin boy has been lost in a storm.
The Maigrets are found sitting on a pebbly beach. Maigret goes for a walk and Mme Maigret is approached by a girl - she turns out to be engaged to the sparks, who has gone missing.
Maigret is really here - with the athletic Lucas - to investigate the captain's murder. Why, we aren't told. Don't they have policemen in Normandy?
It turns out there was another crew member aboard - the voluptuous bar maid from the crewmen's favourite bar/hostel.
She is a salty character with an Irish accent standing in for Breton. The Captain and the sparks were in love with her.
Maigret solves the crime, but no-one is brought to justice. Anyway, it was not the sparks, who is now free to marry his rather plain fiance. She turns up with her father, a mayor and chirps about how Pierre can now study accountancy and perhaps become a mayor himself one day! Yes, he says, I'm already being measured for my chains.
I told you he was a poet.
