Simeon George

Maigret decides to believe in Heurtin Joseph, a young man sentenced to death for the murder of two elderly women in Saint-Cloud, which has always stubbornly maintained his innocence. The inspector is not sure of the choice he made to convince his superiors to organize an escape for the young man, to lead him to the real culprits.

The inventor of sure-fire failures leads such an abysmal life that he creates a second identity, that of a dashing, debonair womaniser.