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L'Affaire Saint-Fiacre January, 1932. Cap d'Antibes "Les Roches-Grises" Fayard, 1932 Tout Simenon (PDLC '91-'92): Tome 17, pp. 277-363 (87pp). Maigret and the Countess (1940) tr. Margaret Ludwig The Saint-Fiacre Affair Maigret Goes Home (1967) tr. Robert Baldick Maigret on Home Ground The Saint-Fiacre Affair (2015) tr. Shaun Whiteside bibliography entry films / television Maigret of the Month: January, 2005

M goes to Saint-Fiacre, his home town, after noticing a note that had been received by the Moulins police, and sent up to Paris, warning that a crime was going to be committed in the Church at Saint-Fiacre, during the first Mass on All Soul's Day. And in fact, before M's very eyes, the old Comtesse de Saint-Fiacre dies during the mass... of heart failure. M locates her missal, in which a fake newspaper story of her son's suicide had been planted. Her son, Maurice de Saint-Fiacre appears with his mistress, Marie Vassilief. He is broke, as usual, had come to borrow more from his mother. His mother's secretary/lover, Jean Métayer is quick to protest his innocence. The steward, Gautier, who lives in the house that had been M's father's, tells M that the Countess had been going broke as well, and that he had been paying many of her debts. His son, Émile Gautier, works in the bank in Moulins, where M verifies the state of the estate. Maurice schedules a dinner, at which all concerned are invited, including the priest and Dr. Bouchardon, and Jean's lawyer. During the dinner Maurice promises that the murderer will be dead by midnight, and at midnight Émile shoots him, and then explains that he'd known he'd done it. But the gun contained blanks, and Maurice is quick to show that it was the steward and his son who had done the deed, which, however, was unpunishable as a legal crime. Read more about it: Maigret of the Month: January, 2005 Maigret's Journeys in France

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