When Peg Leg Lapie is found murdered, Maigret firmly believes that he was not alone in his summerhouse, but the only other person around is Lapie's housekeeper and she is as evasive as Maigret is brilliant Maigret meets his match in the alluring form of Felicie. In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert nose and especially the hat, that giddy, crimson bonnet perched on the top of her head with a bronze-green feather shaped like a blade stuck in it...
