A review by blueyorkie
Maigret e a Encruzilhada by Paulo de Mello Barreto, Georges Simenon, Georges Simenon

4.0

The stove snores in Maigret's office. Outside, Parisian life flows over the seventeen hours of endless interrogation that Maigret and his colleague Lucas make the Danish Carl Andersen undergo.
As the mist on the Seine rises and gives way to daylight, the suspect is released. A man who irritates and surprises the commissioner with his ability to keep his distinction despite this trying interrogation.
This Dane lives with his sister at the crossroads of Trois-Veuve. Antwerp's diamond's corpse dealer found his neighbor's car in his garage on one of its seats. Only three houses stand on the edge of this crossroads: a villa from where a woman spies behind the curtains, a garage that seems somewhat shady, and the house rented by the Dane, dark, disorderly, and with an oppressive atmosphere.
A strange atmosphere, a cloudy, dense atmosphere;
Many shots are fired in this affair, which exceeds and shakes up the legendary placidity of Maigret. Enigmatic characters that the commissioner is trying to uncover. A young Else with a professional, sensual, disturbing attitude.
Maigret even breaks his pipe, so the danger rode and exceeded it.
A perfect intrigue conducted brilliantly immerses us in the middle of this crossroads while avoiding the gunfire!