Maigret y la vieja dama

There is no doubt that Valentine Besson, appreciated by all her neighbors in the Norman village of Étretat, is a charming old woman: fragile, petite, with a rosy complexion and fine features. The relationship with her main loved ones, however, is more complex: her children and daughter-in-law seem to resent her for having squandered the fortune of her late husband, a successful pharmaceutical industrialist, and forcing them to lead a modest life in which one day It was his second residence on the coast. When Rose, Mrs. Besson's maid, is poisoned, the old woman, convinced that she is the real target of the crime, decides to ask for help from Commissioner Maigret, who to solve the case must bring to light the best kept secrets of this fishing community. apparently peaceful.