A Maigret Trio: Maigret's Failure; Maigret in Society; Maigret and the Lazy Burglar

290 pp. "The three Maigret cases assembled in this omnibus have never before been published in the United States. ...Maigret is shown faced with three very different deaths, and the various milieus are depicted with an equal sureness of touch. In "Maigret's Failure," the vulgarly rich owner of a chain of butcher shops, "The King of the Meat Trade," is murdered, for motives understandable and fairly obvious. In "Maigret in Society," however, Maigret is faced by the subtleties of people so highly bred as to appear to him unreal. He moves among cobwebs, an intruder in tender secrets. ..."...the Lazy Burglar;" here, a risky profession is exercised by an eminently cautious man. Maigret's understanding for and liking of a thief is made more poignant since he is frustrated in bringing the killer to justice."--Front jacket flap