If you've missed the omnibus of early Simenon/Maigret titles that has been on sale a couple of times in the not-too-distant past, here's your chance to pick up one of the books on sale individually. The blurb says
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien, apa
The Crime of Inspector Maigret, apa
Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets, is the third Maigret title, but
SYKM says it's the fourth, and I usually go with
SYKM 
. In any case, whatever you call it, it's $1.99 right now at both Kindle and Kobo US.
Kindle US:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DMCUWWY
Kindle US/Smile:
https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00DMCUWWY
Kobo US:
https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the...aint-pholien-1
Spoiler:
Quote:
“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian
Inspector Maigret finds himself tangled up in a dreadful death, in Georges Simenon’s haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt
While in Brussels on police business, Inspector Jules Maigret witnesses a strange act: a scruffy-looking man counts out a large amount of currency and mails it to a Paris address. His instincts tell him there is more to this moment than meets the eye, and following an impulse, Maigret boards the man’s train, following him to Germany via Amsterdam. But in the course of his investigation, something goes horribly awry, and the man ends up dead.
Maigret is devastated by the inadvertent role he played, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to the edge. In The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien, Georges Simenon examines the terrible weight guilt can place on a man’s conscience and the tragedies that can result when that weight gets to be too heavy to bear.
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