Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989. Inspector Maigret.

Penguin classics.

Originally published in French as Félicie est là by Éditions Gallimard, 1944

Imperious, clever, mysterious: Maigret meets his match in the alluring form of Felicie in book twenty-five of the new Penguin Maigret series, In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert nose and especially the hat, that giddy, crimson bonnet perched on the top of her head with a bronze-green feather shaped like a blade stuck in it Felicie had given him more trouble than all the 'hard' men who had been put behind bars

Translated from the French