Publisher's Synopsis
Louis Thouret is found stabbed in a cul-de-sac off the Boulevard Saint-Martin, wearing light brown shoes and a garish tie his wife had never seen before. Each day he left his home to travel to Paris, his family believing that he worked as a storekeeper for a firm in the city. But Maigret discovers that the firm closed down three years earlier. So why had Louis concealed this from his wife and what did he do in Paris through the day...?
