A new translation of this novel set in the demi-monde of the sun-soaked Riviera, part of the Maigret series

Half an hour later, he was in Cannes … White everywhere! Huge white hotels, white shops, white trousers and dresses, white sails out at sea.It was as if life were no more than a pantomime fairy-tale, a white and blue fairy-tale.Dazzled at first by the glamour of sunny Antibes, Maigret soon finds himself immersed in the less salubrious side of the Riviera when he traces the steps of a shabby former spy who is fond of pretty women and dive bars.