В подвалах отеля "Мажестик"

An American millionaire staying with her husband and son at a luxury Parisian hotel is found strangled... in a basement servants' room. How did she get there, and even at six in the morning? She has money and a loaded revolver in her purse. She obviously went down to the basement by herself! Her respectable husband is shocked! Perhaps Mrs. Clarke's past is hiding some secrets? But how to find out something about a family that arrived from Detroit? After all, Commissioner Maigret does not even speak English. In addition, the hotel employee Prosper Donge, who discovered the corpse, now and then confuses him. What is he afraid of? What will his cohabitant say? Knowing the victim when Mrs. Clarke was still a cabaret dancer in Cannes...