It is four o'clock in the morning and out of the rain-slick cobbled streets of Montmartre appears a garishly dressed young woman. Her lipstick is smudged and her gait is unsteady, but there is no mistaking her extraordinary allure. At the police station in the rue de la Rochefoucauld she insists that she has information of terrible urgency - then denies it an hour later. It takes two brutal stranglings and a beautiful corpse to lead Maigret, assisted by a lovelorn detective, into an all-too-familiar underworld where he traces a desperate eroticism to its inevitable conclusion.
- ISBN10 0156551624
- ISBN13 9780156551625
- Publish Date 15 November 1989
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 1 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harcourt Brace International
- Format Paperback
- Pages 202
- Language English