User Reviews

This episode begins with Commissaire Maigret spending the night in a village, at a small local hotel, staying upstairs in a rented room. Maigret, beginning to come down with the flu, is awoken to a scream downstairs. Coming downstairs, in his robe and pajamas--and his unlit pipe--Maigret is confronted with a bevy of frightened hotel guests. Searching the rooms, Maigret finds that one of guests has been stabbed to death in his downstairs room.

Poor Maigret, can get no rest or any peace.

For almost the entire rest of the episode. a fevered Maigret is either downstairs in his overcoat and pajamas, interviewing annoyed guests, sitting alone puzzling over the case, or laying in bed upstairs, sipping hot toddies and sleeping!

Bruno Cremer does an excellent job playing an under-the-weather Maigret. Speaking of weather, for the whole show, the weather outside looks miserable--cold and rainy. (If you are subject to hypochondria, I recommend skipping this episode!)

The mystery itself is sort of a "locked door" mystery, with the killer having to be one of the several guests, the proprietors, or the lone maid working at the small hotel.

The show does a good job of keeping us guessing until the end, when the now healthy Maigret brings everyone downstairs, to reveal who the killer is.