When Maigret's holiday plans go awry, he and his wife spend their vacation in Paris on the condition that he has nothing to do with work. However, a case involving the death of a doctor's wife intrigues Maigret, and he assiduously follows its development in the papers. He cannot resist playing a few tricks on his colleague Janvier who is running the case, and along the way Maigret uncovers something that is crucial to the murderer's discovery...
