The Man on the Boulevard jellemzők

Louis Thouret is found stabbed in an alleyway off the Boulevard Saint-Martin. His wife seems unperturbed when she comes to identify the body, but is perplexed that he is wearing light-brown shoes and a garish tie she'd never seen before. When Maigret begins to reconstruct the dead man's last days, he discovers that for three years Louis had lived a secret life while his wife believed he was at work. But what was his mysterious new source of income? And why did he spend his days sitting on a bench watching the world go by?
In The Man on the Boulevard, Simenon's tenacious detective pieces together the life of a man who tried to escape the failure and isolation of his rigidly conventional existence.