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Not a Maigret novel, this is a standalone novel originally published in 1942 in French as La Veuve Couderc, translated from the original by John Petrie.
Jean Passerat-Monnoyeur, dissolute son of a rich distiller, is released on leave from prison, after serving a sentence for murder. A rich widow Ms Coudero takes him, in as farmhand and lover, arousing intense jealousy from her neighbours...
Photographic style cover by Rosemary Honeybourne, light edgewear only, Penguin number 2314