“Certain images, for no apparent reason, and without our having anything to do with it, stay with us, stuck obstinately in our memories, even though we are hardly aware of having recorded them and they are not important.”
Slow-moving psychological detective Jules Maigret is hot on the trail of a crime that has not even happened yet after being visited by Leonard Planchon, a man who confesses that he intends to murder his wife and her lover