A new edition and a new translation of the 28th novel in the classic French crime series featuring gallic sleuth Maigret. Part of a Penguin publication campaign of all 75 Maigret novels in new translations A local scandal intrudes on Maigret's seaside holiday in book twenty-eight of the new Penguin Maigret series. At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into his pocket, his left breast pocket? It was an ordinary sheet of glazed squared paper, probably torn out of an exercise book.