Maigret and  his wife become unintentionally entangled in a case which involves printing false identification, murder of a Countess, and a 2 year old left with Madame Maigret in a park.  The pieces which don’t appear to have any relationship to one another fall into place neatly at the end and one bad guy is caught and the other, a clown, commits suicide.  Another fascinating trip through Paris of the 1950’s.