REVIEW: Maigret tend un piège / Maigret sets a Trap 1958, a Jean Gabin extravaganza
There's a killer in town. Already 4 brunette, middle-aged, and not too thin women have been stabbed to death in the same vicinity. Although Commisaire Maigret is not in charge, he takes over the investigation and plans a trap: to enrage the killer by imprisoning a ludicrous imposter and by restaging the crime just in his face. Our killer, of course, is furious and tries to kill a fifth time. His victim, though, had been instructed by Maigret and the killer has to flee through the streets, hunted by a mob. But then he vanishes miraculously. Meanwhile, an inspector follows a suspicious woman who was far too interested in the crime re-staging. She meets a gigolo at the "La Cucaracha"-bar and spends an hour at the hotel with him. Following her to her fancy apartment in the suburbs, he reports to Maigret and our Commissaire can establish a connection between her, the female house owner of the house where the killer vanished, and the butcher who has his shop and workspace in ...
