Maigret's dead man, paperback/georges simenon

After receiving a series of mysterious calls from a man who later turns up dead, Maigret must plunge into the murky Parisian underworld to solve the case.

The twenty-ninth book in the new Penguin Maigret series.

A man calls Maigret from a cafe and asks for police protection, saying he s being followed by men trying to kill him.

The next day, the man s body is identified in the street.

To catch the killer, Maigret must piece together the details of his dead man s life, leading police into the crowded, fetid underground world of the Paris slums in the process.

This novel has been published by Penguin in a previous translation as Maigret s Special Murder .