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There are also some interesting call-backs to earlier Maigret novels, like in one chapter he has a flashback to Porquerolle, the fictional fishing village on the Riviera in "My Friend Maigret".

This one has a bit more complex a mystery at its heart as well than most of the other Maigret novels I've read, and requires more deduction and investigation to solve.

I can understand why this is my mother's favourite Maigret novel, we get way more insight into the inspector's private life and his overall thought processes outside of work here than in the others since it follows him on vacation. UNTIL a murder is committed at the resort where he's staying!

I also like that it explores many of the unique social/economic structures peculiar to resort towns like Vichy in France.