A new translation of this moving novel about the destructive power of greed book twenty in the new Penguin Maigret series.Poor Cecile And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers barely twenty eight years old. But it would be difficult to look more like an old maid to move less gracefully in spite of the care she took to be friendly and pleasant. Those black dresses that she must make for herself from bad paper patterns that ridiculous green hat In the dreary suburbs of Paris the merciless greed of a seemingly respectable woman is unearthed by her long suffering niece and Maigret discovers the far reaching consequences of their actions.