Maigret was wounded while hunting 'Pierre the Latvian'. His wife takes care of the patient, tries to prevent him from rushing off into new adventures. But she can't deny her husband a daily visit to the café. And so Maigret watches from a distance the efforts of Lucas, who has just been promoted to Chief Inspector, to solve the Javet murder affair. With Lucas hopelessly lost, Maigret must put him on the right track. Based on the 50th Maigret novel Maigrets'amuse (1956), which was published in German under the titles Maigret als Zuschauer and Maigret amüsiert sich