Maigret's vacation turns out differently than expected: his wife has to go to the hospital with appendicitis and the straw widower is confronted with a sophisticated crime. During his visit to the hospital, a nurse tells him what a dying man said. The man had been seriously injured in a car accident, however, it seems to be a crime - and therefore murder. Maigret's suspicions become certainty when another crime announces itself ... Based on the 28th novel in the Maigret series: 'Les vacances de Maigret' (1948). In the German-speaking world, the novel was published as 'Maigret macht Ferien'.