Penguin have done so much to make the Maigret stories accessible to existing fans and new audiences. First with the seventy-five novels and now tackling the short stories with new and modern translations. To mark an anniversary they have produced a new book containing three shorter tales. Stan the Killer is a daunting foe. Leaves no witnesses in armed robberies and has nothing to lose if facing arrest. Willing to kill both the police and bystanders. Maigret and his team have limited intel on the Polish gang but think some may be hiding in plain sight in cheap rooms, among other Polish immigrants. So a police operation begins as a stake-out of the hotel with Maigret unsure how to proceed. In the Inn of the Drowned, Maigret is indirectly involved in this case when a car is forced off the road into a fast flowing river. A young “honeymooning” couple staying at the Inn are feared drowned and swept away by the current. Unlike Stan the Killer this tale has Maigret working more on his own following his hunches. In Madame Maigret’s Suitor the domestic bliss of Maigret’s home is disrupted as his wife becomes a first rate detective in her own right. Trouble is unlike Lucas she seems unable to curtail her endeavours which makes him smile as her intuition mirrors his own thinking on the case of a curious stranger shot in the park opposite their home. Three stories that show a range of approaches to Maigret investigations, with comic touches and clever resolution to the unfolding drama. A perfect introduction to the world of Inspector Maigret and with many further novels to read a gift that keeps on giving.