Maigret and the Yellow Dog — Georges Simenon

A gripping mystery from Georges Simenon in which Inspector Maigret must go up against small town suspicion -- and revenge

In a small, seaside town in the northwest of France, the local wine dealer is wounded by a gunshot while returning home drunk from a hotel bar. Maigret, who is heading up a mobile squad of the Paris police force, is called in by the mayor to solve the crime. But upon settling down in the hotel, Maigret quickly discovers a curious cast of characters awaits him there -- and they all have something to hide.

In the course of this strange case, a customs official is shot, a retired journalist is lost and found, and a vagrant is attested, but through it all Maigret has his sights set firmly in the direction of the truth, even as a strange yellow dog haunts the neighborhood. Fast-paced and wholly unpredictable, The Yellow Dog is a sharp mystery set against the cutthroat backdrop of small town politics.