[Inspector Maigret 01] • Inspector Maigret Deduces

The first story in this new series presents the deceptively stolid Maigret with a favorite gambit of the genre — a train problem. There were six passengers in the compartment en route from Warsaw and Berlin to Paris. One was murdered, five were suspects. Simple? Well, not really; compact as the crime was in scene and dramatis personae, still it proved to be a web of criscrossing clues and doublecrossing motives...Original title: Jeumont, 51 minutes d'arrêtOriginal publication date: 1944Publication date of this translation: 1966, November inEllery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Vol. 48, #5, N° 276, pp 99-109translated by: [J.E. Malcom] ©1961"first publication in the United States"