An unknown man, panicked and chased by killers, calls from café to café at the Judicial Police and asks for help from Inspector Maigret. They will not be able to save him. His body will be found thrown from a car on Place de la Concorde, in the center of Paris. The case haunts Maigret, who stays up all night with his colleagues to find the culprits. This will lead him to a gang of Czech and Polish criminals, who turn out to be serial killers in the French province, in the rich farms of Picardy.
A novel with a lot of suspense, intensity, but also humor, with great narrative twists and with the strong human element of Maigret.

The book was made into an English film in 2016, with the amazing actor Rowan Atkinson in the role of Inspector Maigret.