Description

• Jacket art by Youngman Carter who was responsible for numerous crime covers, including his wife Margery Allingham’s
• Originally Maigret Et Son Mort [Presses de la Cité, Paris, 1948] & translated from the French by Jean Stewart
• Also made into a feature-length television episode, Maigret’s Dead Man, starring Rowan Atkinson [2016]
• The murder of café proprietor, little Albert, would prove to be one of the most difficult in Maigret’s illustrious career
• First UK Edition [Hamish Hamilton, London, 1964]; 189, [3 blank] pages; brown cloth, gold titling on spine, gift inscription on front endpaper, else a near-fine copy; in the very good illustrated dustjacket, price-clipped, a little rubbed & bumped, two 2cm tears at base of front cover, tape repair [removed] visible on verso