My Friend Maigret: Inspector Maigret #31

Maigret heads to an island off the Cote d'Azur in this new translation, part of the Penguin Maigret series

There was a strong mistral blowing. I don’t know what the mistral was doing there, but from what I’ve understood it has a certain importance. It’s because of the mistral, in particular, that Marcellin, rather than going to sleep on his boat as he usually does, headed for a shack that stands near the harbour, where the fishermen store their nets.