Maigret – Vražda v hotelu Majestic - CDmp3 (Čte Jan Vlasák)

A corpse first thing in the morning. In a locker. How scandalous – and how American! ***** When a strangled American woman in a black gown falls out of metal locker number 89 in the employee quarters of a posh hotel near the Champs-Élysées, the reputation of the establishment is at risk. Journalists are flocking to the crime scene like vultures, so the hastily summoned Maigret must first determine what led the lady, who was staying here with her son, his governess, and teacher, to descend into the basement. And why is the wealthy husband of the victim, who was supposedly conducting business in Rome at the time, so distant – does he have some entanglements? Why were three employees sleeping in the locker rooms, even though regulations prohibited it in the 1930s? If only the tire of the bicycle belonging to the café's preparatory leader, Prospero Donge, hadn't burst that morning, causing him to arrive late for his shift and miss the murderer by just a minute at his locker. Or is that a cover story? The ace detective from the Goldsmiths' waterfront would find the convoluted case much easier to solve if there were fewer ambiguities regarding the boy's true father, blackmail schemes, inspections of prostitutes, and identity swaps. Everything suggests that now, against Maigret, stands a possibly inconspicuous, perhaps frightened, yet cunning criminal. ***** Length of recording: 5 hours 16 minutes.