Inspector Maigret, summoned urgently to the Quai d'Orsay, goes there with Commander Janvier. They find Mademoiselle Larrieu in a state of shock. That very morning, she had discovered the bullet-riddled body of Monsieur Berthier-Lages, a renowned former ambassador for whom she had worked as a housekeeper for 46 years. In the victim's apartment, Maigret and Janvier discover thousands of letters. The diplomat had been conducting a love affair through correspondence with the Princess de Vuynes for fifty years, whose husband, by a strange coincidence, had just died. As he confronts members of both families and grapples with Mademoiselle Larrieu's suspicious silence, Maigret will encounter one surprise after another...
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