Pietr the Latvian

Tracking an elusive adversary who is leaving a trail of bodies in his wake, Inspector Maigret is forced to bide his time and wait for his quarry to make a mistake that will reveal his true identity. Original. Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic. He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted.