''Compelling, remorseless, brilliant'' John Gray Maigret finds himself back on the Rue des Acacias just ten days after cracking another case there. This time it is the murder of a criminal Maigret has known for over twenty years and one he always suspected was behind a string of jewellery robberies in the city. Maigret''s patience is tested as he eliminates neighbour by neighbour in his hunt for the murderer.This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret Bides His Time.''His artistry is supreme'' John Banville''One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories'' Guardian