# Maigret Defends Himself

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- Authors: [Georges Simenon](https://www.bookquiver.com/georges-simenon)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4178-819-6
- Pages: 160
- Published: 2025-07-24
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office, where he is shocked to discover himself accused of a crime. With his career and reputation on the line, Maigret must fight to prove his innocence. Has he, for once, come up against a malicious evil he cannot defeat? Translated by Howard Curtis