The Cellars of the Majestic

“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré

An Inspector Maigret mystery that brings the dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris to life

In this riveting mystery from Georges Simenon, Maigret must investigate the murder of Mrs. Clark, the wife of a wealthy American industrialist, whose strangled body is found in the basement of an upscale hotel near the Champs-Élysées. Maigret’s inquiries take him from the endless corridors of the Hotel Majestic to the countryside of the Bois de Boulogne and sun-drenched Cannes, into a world of illicit sex work, drug addiction, and blackmail.