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Ernestine Micou?

- Are you from the police? - Inspector Maigret.

I did not do anything. It was my girlfriend.

- Where is it? - No idea.

- Search for it. That is your job? - Dress and come along.

- First eat my bread. - Dress and come along.

I can easily go through with it anyway?

I have an arrest warrant. Dress up.

That you arrest me, well, but I'm not going to cooperate.

I would like to walk without clothes at home.

That just does not work.

Bunch of rocking bags. Dirty cops.

Ernestine Jussiaume, maiden name Micou. Nickname: Bonestaak.

Urgently.

Here she is, Commissioner.

Do you remember me? Bonestaak.

Are you still mad at me?

I want to say that you were wrong then.

Ten months in the bin while my friend Lulu had taken the money.

This is how you see: Anyone can be mistaken. Even you.

- Did you want to talk to me about that? - No. It's Alfred.

- Who is that? - Alfred Jussiaume, my husband.

A real marriage, in the church. He wanted that.

He is still religious.

You know him well. They call it Alfred de Treurige.

The safe cracker?

- That's what Boissier is about. - Formally yes.

He has now stopped it three times. The last time he got five years.

- Did he mistreate you? - He does not hurt a fly yet.

- What did he do? - Nothing. He is only in the mess.

- Where is he? - I do not know.

Is he running away?

You really have to be with Boissier.

He handles burglaries. You deal with murders.

Did he kill someone?

I know him. He is too sensitive for that.

He cries for the least or least.

What did the good man do?

He had a burglary last night committed in Neuilly.

Have a seat.

Were you doing that?

I can never help him. He works alone.

For a job, he sits for hours to observe the environment.

So that break-in was in Neuilly?

The day before he said he was held for an identity check.

And you have not seen it since seen?

He called at five o'clock in the morning. I could not sleep.

I immediately heard that there was something. He almost did not get out of his words.

Has been there for the past 24 hours a murder reported in Neuilly?

A woman.

No body caught from the Seine? No shots heard?

Thanks. Call Commissioner Maigret if you hear something.

It is true. He saw a woman sitting looking at it with dead eyes.

She had the telephone receiver in her hand and she was covered in blood.

- Could Alfred confirm that yourself? - He was scared. A car stopped.

- Did he see who came out? - A man.

- Alfred has fled. - Did he leave his stuff?

He left, he said. He was completely panicked.

- Did he have a girlfriend sometimes? - No. I know that for sure.

I did want one for him investigate. Life is so difficult.

- Tell me if you hear something from him. - You too, Commissioner.

You're no longer a rookie, but I can help you.

There are things that I do better at home than you.

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- Commissioner Day. - Day Boissier.

- Do you know Alfred Jussiaume? - The Sorrowful. What's up with him?

According to his wife, he broke into it.

But when he wanted to crack the safe, he saw a corpse.

Just something for him. He could be a millionaire.

He knows hundreds of safes, but he always has bad luck.

Then there are effects in it or documents. Unsellable.

- Did his wife ask you for help? - Yes. He's out of town.

Where was it?

Somewhere in Neuilly. A house with an iron fence. Quite a bit vague.

Maybe it is enough.

I'm looking.

I'll come to your room.

He has ten years as an expert worked at a safe factory.

Then he started cracking vaults.

This is his track record.

Where did he install safes?

- Did you know I had those addresses? - Of course.

I would be such a bad luck do not like to persist.

The last time he got five years.

He had a bad lawyer. I could do something.

Alfred is an artist. He does not play the hard boy.

Although he has to go into the bin for ten years, he will continue immediately.

A born victim. He is always being hunted.

That's where it should be.

Wait for me in front of the caf .

- What will it be? - Take a grog, Boissier.

I am too thirsty. A glass of lemon lemonade.

- I do not have a lemon. - Then a pastis.

I have a glass of white wine. You know here maybe a dentist in the neighborhood?

Across. I do not know whether he is good. It is never crowded.

- What does he look like? - A lot of water.

From your posture. Around fifty.

He will come here for a drink.

Secretly?

He looks at his house before he comes in.

- What is he drinking? - Always red wine.

Two glasses in a row, around six o'clock.

Then he wipes his mouth, pay and go. He never says much.

Visit, Commissioner.

That is bad.

So you found it too.

I have the list of safes. Alfred had hidden it somewhere.

- Can I have it? - I burned it.

- Why? - I'm not going to bring any evidence.

Are you going to watch? Can I wait here?

- If you want. - I keep thinking about it.

- Do you have an appointment? - We want to speak to Doctor Serre.

The doctor will only receive by appointment.

Commissioner Maigret, detective.

Excuse me. My son does not want to that people just walk in.

My son is currently doing it an afternoon nap.

Will you sit down anyway.

I'm going to get it.

I do not want to be rude...

but my son and I know everything from each other. We have lived here for 50 years.

May I perhaps know ...

- Is your son not married? - Yes.

Does his wife live here too?

No more, Commissioner.

Did she do something wrong?

Are you here because of her?

Will you sit down anyway.

After the death of his first wife my son did not want to remarry.

Then he learned a patient from him know. She lived in Paris. Only.

- And they are married? - Yes. I thought it was a good idea.

Then he stayed at least not just behind.

I understand. Did she die recently?

- Passed away? - You talk in the past tense.

That's right. Because she has left us.

- When was that? - Two days ago.

Two days ago.

So Monday.

Did she say why she left?

It is a painful issue to explain.

Especially to a man.

At a certain moment in our lives ...

we make a period in which we are not entirely ourselves.

We become angry at nothing. We get it us the weirdest things in the head.

She only talked about it The Netherlands. Her homeland.

- She left Monday? - Yes. With the night train.

Does your son have her brought to the train?

- Did she take a taxi? - She went on a search down there.

Have you heard anything from her?

I do not think she wants to hear anything.

Has there been from a divorce?

We are Catholic, Commissioner.

But may I to ask for the reason for your visit?

Has something happened to Maria?

Can you tell me what is here? Monday exactly happened?

Eugnie has my daughter-in-law helped with packing.

Our housekeeper. She comes every day from nine to five.

Have your son that evening leave the house?

- Before dinner. - He made his evening walk.

- Just to the caf? - No. He does not drink.

- Never? - A glass of diluted wine with food.

- What time did you eat? - Right when he came back.

He is still walking the route he walked with the dog.

Did you eat together?

We had already started when Mary came down.

No altercation?

Nothing was said while eating. I felt that my son ...

Come in, Mr. Serre.

My apologies ...

- but I heard something. - These gentlemen are from the police.

Commissioner Maigret, Inspector Boissier.

Your mother has just told you that your wife left the day before yesterday.

- What exactly do they want? - I do not know.

We talked a bit awaiting your arrival.

Your mother told us that you did an afternoon nap.

We are here because we suspect you the victim of a burglary.

How do you get there?

Something might happen to us.

- From informants. - For example.

- I'm sorry, gentlemen. - You were not robbed?

Then I was went to the police.

You are in possession of a safe?

I think I have the right not to answer that.

But I can tell you that I do indeed possess it.

Is that a Planchart safe, Posted 15 years ago?

I do not know exactly when. That does not matter to anyone.

Sleep you and your mother on the first floor?

- Can I view your work room? - Of course, Commissioner.

Then you see yourself that there is no burglary.

Do you see? Nothing wrong.

We have many books about law. My husband was a lawyer.

You must not blame my son, but the departure of his wife ...

Are you satisfied? Would you see the kitchen and practice?

No. Thank you.

- Is this done? - Five days ago.

Two windows were broken during the storm.

Did you let someone come?

No. My son does little jobs always yourself.

That's enough. These gentlemen can not just bother us.

Commissioner.

I had forgotten.

And?

No body and there is no burglary.

- Is there not a window missing somewhere? - Two even. Broken during the storm.

They lie.

Someone is lying there in any case.

- And you think that's me. - Maybe Alfred.

Why is he calling me? in the middle of the night?

Yes why?

Goodbye, Commissioner.

Maybe Alfred spoke the truth.

Do me a favor, Boissier, and go under the wool with that flu.

It could not be for us at that time.

Ernestine answered and has spoken quite a while.

- What time did Alfred leave the day before? - At eleven o'clock.

- First floor. - Thank you.

Are you.

Excuse me.

Yes, times have changed. Come inside.

- Have you heard anything from Alfred? - No, nothing at all.

- Do not you find that strange? - He thinks I'm being followed.

Search the room.

I've been thinking. Someone must have lied.

Why would you believe me?

Do you want coffee?

No, thank you, Ernestine.

A lady has been sitting for an hour waiting for you.

- Here she is. - Come inside.

- Do you suffer from the smoke? - No. My son smokes cigars.

I thought it was annoying, like he did yesterday.

I certainly brought up bad. He is my only child.

My husband died when Guillaume twelve. I spoiled him.

He was the man in the house. We are have been together all this time.

- Your son was already married. - He was a widower at an early age.

- How long did his first marriage last? - Two years.

Do you not find that remarkable?

With Maria, he is also two years old married.

- How was his first wife? - Very civilized. A widow.

Did she have children?

- What did she die of? - Of a heart attack.

I wanted to call you yesterday, but I have only come personally.

It's probably a misunderstanding. We have nothing to hide.

When are those windows broken?

I already told you that.

During the storm last week the window had been opened.

- Was that during the day? - Yes. At six o'clock in the afternoon.

- When the housekeeper was already gone. - Yes. It goes at five o'clock.

We really have nothing to hide, Commissioner.

You came here of your own free will, Mrs Serre.

You want me to ask you questions.

Good.

We continue with the evening meal your daughter-in-law, your son and you.

- Where was the luggage then? - In the corridor.

- Who would have worn it down? - Eugnie. And Guillaume has helped.

- Was there a big suitcase? - Yes. A cabin trunk.

My daughter-in-law traveled a lot before her marriage.

Were you there when your daughter-in-law left?

No. I try emotional situations avoid as much as possible.

I said goodbye downstairs and went upstairs.

- Where was your son at that moment? - In his office, I believe.

So you do not know whether they have been talking.

I do not think so. I have not heard anything.

You were on the first floor. Do you think that you could have heard a conversation?

I hear the parquet cracking on the other side of the house.

- Who was going to find a taxi? - Maria. I already said that.

- Did she stay away for a long time? - Pretty long, yes.

There is no taxi rank nearby. She had to hold one.

Have you gone downstairs? when she was gone?

No. Guillaume came to my room.

Was he upset?

He was the way you saw him yesterday.

Did he know that his wife did not come back?

He suspected it. Otherwise she had not all her stuff.

You are no longer after that come from your room?

Has your son stayed with you?

- Did he not leave? - Why?

- Where does he park his car? - In the garage a little further.

So he can leave with the car without anyone seeing it.

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- Day chef. - Come in, Janvier. Any news?

Come in.

It is about Maria van Aerts. 51 years old. Born in Sneek, the Netherlands.

She lived before her marriage in a guest house in Neuilly.

And the taxi?

We do not have that yet. Vannier is at the station.

Good. Let me know if you hear something.

I want to answer your questions, but I do not understand this.

Are you worried?

Yesterday it was a burglary and now you suddenly ask for Maria.

I am somewhat upset, yes.

- Have you heard anything? - I did not expect that either.

You keep something behind me, Commissioner.

Have a seat.

Yesterday is a man entered your home.

- Why? - To break open your safe.

- What did he bring? - Nothing.

Because he is in the light of his flashlight something saw what he did not expect.

What then?

A body.

The body of a woman.

Probably your daughter-in-law.

Did he say that?

Why do you let that man his accusation not to repeat to me?

- Because he is no longer in Paris. - Can not you let him come?

You have good reasons to believe this burglar.

After all, I'm just an old woman never hurt anyone.

I want you immediately come to our house.

Then I open everything and you may look around everywhere.

No, thank you.

You try to move in me.

Forget that you are in your daily life solve crimes.

Imagine that you become questions that you are suspected of something.

I will certainly do that.

Garcin, with Maigret. I make it excellent.

Listen. Go immediately to Rue de la Ferme 43b.

You know about it. Beautiful.

I just want to speak to the dentist and I have no papers.

It must be back for his mother.

Take it with you. Tell him to testify or something.

No, it is not as it should be.

Can you come here, inspector?

- How did it go? - I had a call written.

He read it and immediately went with it. But he does not say a stupid word.

Come.

Hello, Mr. Serre.

I wanted to ask you a few questions.

I received a call from the Neuilly police.

- So you do not want to give an answer? - By no means.

Good. Then you will receive a call with the police commissioner of Neuilly.

- I do not like these situations. - Me neither.

Let him come.

- What is he suspected of? - Murder of his wife.

We want to check some data. I will not stop you long.

Stay here, Garcin.

Are you the owner of the transport means with the registration number RS ​​8822 L?

When are you last? driven in?

May I ask why you me ask these questions?

They have your car, your license plate in every case ...

passed like that of the guilty of a collision.

- When was that? - Monday evening.

And where?

Somewhere along the Seine.

The car has not been out of the garage.

- Maybe somebody had borrowed 'm'. - The garage was locked.

So you have Monday night and Monday night your car not used?

Are there witnesses to that collision?

That was it, Mr. Serre. You can go.

- I did my best. - I saw that.

Can you hold back?

Thank you. Drive on again.

- Did you learn anything else? - No.

- This was in the mail. - From Alfred?

- It's his handwriting. - Le Havre.

Suppose he comes back to Paris.

Do we keep it?

That is not possible because he has not been caught.

Greenhouse does not even have filed a complaint.

- So you leave it alone. - If he has not lied.

- I have news. - See you then.

I went to that guest house what I was talking about.

There are mainly foreign tourists, write those cards home.

Maria van Aerts lived there for a year.

She wrote thick letters every week to a friend in Amsterdam.

He came to see it once and then stayed for three weeks.

Gertrude Oosting. Married with a brewer. Must be easy to find.

- They probably continued to write. - That seems to me too.

- Is Torrence there? - Since this morning again.

Send him here.

Post yourself opposite Rue de la Ferme 43b in Neuilly.

Do not hide. If there is a man comes out, you open it openly.

Was that it?

Let's redeem tonight. Enjoy your meal.

Call the Le Havre police.

Follow me.

Are you Eug nie?

- What do you want from me? - I want to talk to you.

- I do not have time. - I'm from the police.

I want to ask you a few questions.

- What do you think of your employers? - Withers.

- The old Mrs. Serre too? - That's the worst.

I'll take you home.

- I do not have to be cops. - That is your right.

You also hate to the daughter-in-law?

She plundered the pantry. She ate everything I had prepared.

- Do you know when she left? - Monday. Here it is.

- Why are you looking for her? - We suspect she was murdered.

- Then hold them. - We do not have enough evidence yet.

And what do you want from me?

Do you remember what happened on Monday?

Very well.

You have the young Mrs. Serre help you.

Yes. The whole morning.

- Did she take many personal things with her? - To hope.

She had thirty dresses. She never threw anything away.

She did not wear them anymore, but she never gave them away.

Greedy.

Like all the rich.

It seems they are a trunk and had two suitcases with him.

The rest was the week before already sent.

- Did her husband know? - Of course.

- It had been agreed for a long time. - Since when?

Since her last attack.

She wanted to go back after every attack to her country.

What kind of attacks?

She had a bad heart.

- Was she heart-patient? - Apparently.

- Did she take medication? - They took all three of them.

Leather his own bottle or jar of pills next to his plate.

Did they often argue?

They did not talk to each other for weeks.

Then she stayed in her room. - Who? Maria or the mother?

That Dutch. Then she wrote letters all day long.

And I had to post them. Always someone in Amsterdam.

- Gertrude Oosting? - Something like that. At least it was Gertrude.

You already worked for them before they married each other?

Do you know who worked for them before?

They exchanged quite a bit of housekeeper. That's what the postman said.

Once you know them, you want to leave. In any case, I step up.

Why?

I'm tired of that old man to count the sugar cubes.

She is so sneaky.

Always polite, but she looks at you as if you are nothing.

Did you notice anything when you came to work Tuesday?

There was no broken window at night in the office?

Does it not smell like putty?

- You are mistaken in the day. - Which day was that?

A day or two before that. After the storm.

- Are you sure? - Absolutely.

Two windows were broken. I had to mop the floor.

Who replaced them?

Conservatory. He is probably going to the hardware store on the Rue de Longchamp.

They are so stingy that they do everything themselves.

The dentist unblocks the toilets.

- Do you think they killed 'r? - No idea.

Just hold on.

- Good evening. Do you sell window glass? - We're going to close.

Recherche.

Excuse me. What can I do for you?

- Do you know Mr. Serre, the dentist? - He has an account with us.

Has he only been here?

Last week he bought window glass and putty.

- On which day? - The day after the storm. Friday, I believe.

Friday.

- Nice. Thank you. - I can check it.

He has been of the week too.

He was also Tuesday.

Then he has another piece of glass purchased.

41 by 45 centimeters.

- Are you sure? - Very sure. He was the first customer.

- What time was that? - We're going to open at eight o'clock.

- Is that also in your cash book? - Of course.

I send a photographer along. Save the page.

Commissioner Maigret, detective.

Excuse me.

It is not according to the book.

But they lied about those broken windows.

And if the dentist catches us?

Wait until he sleeps. Within.

Torrence keeps the watch. They can do the garage from the house can not see. Good luck.

I found Gertrude Oosting ...

and an interpreter arranged at the Dutch embassy.

You went to collect her Tuesday at the station in Amsterdam.

But she was not there.

She says she is worried and asks if Maria is dead.

Perhaps. I'll give you an interpreter for a moment.

Ask her if she can give me the letters of the past year.

And tell them to go to as soon as possible the police headquarters must go ...

to Maria Serre-van Aerts as missing.

It's urgent.

- Good evening. - Is your flu already over, Boissier?

Almost. I did not stop in bed anymore.

I'll see you.

I'm sorry I let you wait.

- Are you ready now? - Not yet.

I expect an important telegram from Amsterdam.

What are you raised up? Are you going to take someone?

Something like that.

A glass of white wine.

- What do you want to eat? - I do not know.

- Maybe fish. - I take oysters at least.

Are you going to the desk later?

- But no comments about dust and stuff. - agreed.

- How did it go? - Fine. The photos are almost ready.

Come on in. Did you find something?

There is already a day or three no longer driven by car.

Nothing special, only two scratches in the trunk.

- As if something heavy was sanded by? - Could be. A suitcase or a chest.

- No blood traces? - No. And no hair.

Do you think the car will pass has been cleaned?

Not from outside, but from inside. I could hardly find any dust.

I'm going to investigate my finds. Good evening.

Are you not sleepy?

Is it always so?

- Your job. - It depends on.

- Is it a murder? - Probably.

Do you know who did it?

Does he know that you suspect it?

That must be terrible.

For that poor woman it was not that nice either.

A telegram, commissioner.

A research request Amsterdam. We can go home.

- And the photos? - They do not yield anything.

- The trace investigation is not. - Did the killer cover himself?

This was at the driver's seat. Gravel.

- From bricks. - At least that's something.

Come with your men to the house later. Get rid of it. We have to make an impression.

- Is it a hard one? - In his way. I'll call you.

Are you going to look at the harbor, Boissier?

Check whether or not there last week a cargo of stones has been unloaded.

- Do you have a search warrant? - Hello, Mr. Serre. Please.

As you can see is a research being started ...

to the disappearance from Mrs Maria Serre-van Aerts.

Gertrude Oosting has her if reported missing.

What is it, Guillaume?

Nothing, mama. These gentlemen just come by.

Go back to your room.

So you got to know your wife because she took you as a dentist.

Did you know she was rich?

Dr. Dubuc was so your wife's doctor?

For our marriage, yes.

Did you know she was heart patient?

Yes, she said that.

Your previous wife is too died of a heart disease.

That's right. The death certificate is in my mother's room.

Can you give me a picture of your father show?

I do not see one.

The whole mikmak. Get the dust comb through.

- Would that make an impression? - At least on someone.

- I'm going after the father. - Shall I do that?

Here I am. Alain Serre, seen on his back.

We were fellow students. He's been dead for about thirty years.

- What kind of man was it? - What is it about, Maigret?

His son. He is a dentist.

I never saw that. I knew he had a son.

Alain and I belonged to a group of party animals ...

for whom the family did not come first.

This is not his wife.

No, his mistress.

I did not know his wife. They lived somewhere in Neuilly.

But he is tall with that dancer been. Josette.

A naughty thing. They called the Nightjar.

They are upstairs. They have not found anything.

I do not know where to stay anymore. What are they looking for?

We should never have let it go.

If I had known this ...

Is this yours, Mr. Serre?

Who else?

- Drank? - He could hit him a lot.

We lived the good life. An unforgettable time.

- And, Janvier? - Nothing special.

Only the death certificates from his first wife and his father.

Look for a picture of his father. I want to see that.

Put on your coat, Mr. Serre.

The letters from Mrs Serre to her friend Gertrude Oosting.

Start with the most recent.

Thanks, Dambois. Warn me when you go.

Would you like to read this, Mr. Serre?

The page of last Tuesday from the cash book of the Gillot hardware store.

It says: Glass plate of 41 by 45 and a half pound putty.

The first customer that day.

- Do you understand what that means? - Are you accusing me?

Officially you are here as a witness, but I could blame you.

Then you can get the help from a lawyer.

I do not need a lawyer.

- Do you suffer from a heart condition? - Hypertrophy, just like you probably do.

Your father died on one heart disease when you were still at school.

Your first wife was also a cardiac patient, and Maria van Aerts too.

Many people die to a heart condition.

- Do you have a life insurance policy? - Since my childhood already.

But I do not have an insurance policy seen from your mother.

- That is not insured. - Was your father insured?

And your first wife too.

The papers were on my mothers room.

Indeed. And your second wife?

That is very common nowadays.

But it is less common to already to keep that money at home in a safe.

- So many people do that. - A fortune that yields no interest.

You forget the high taxes, the devaluations ...

and the unfavorable financial arrangements.

I understand.

You thus admit that you the tax authorities wanted to light up.

Did your second wife that all that money was in the safe?

Of course. Her money was also there.

I have not found a marriage contract.

We are in community of goods married.

That is unusual at your age.

Otherwise we had all our belongings to make an inventory.

- Was your wife rich? - She still is.

- Richer than you? - Almost as rich.

- Is her fortune in France? - Partially. In the Netherlands too.

- In what form does she keep her money? - Mainly in the form of gold.

Even before she knew you?

I understand where you want to go.

Yes, I advised her convert her possessions into gold.

- And that gold was in your safe. - Indeed.

Until?

See you Monday. Then Maria went down came, I gave her the gold.

So that was somewhere in her luggage.

I assume yes.

How do I know the money in your safe only your money is ...

and not that of your wife?

What do the N and the M mean?

We, my mother and I then, have always done our money together.

We did not make a distinction.

- The M stands for Maria. - Indeed.

There is a number that keeps coming back.

Her contribution to the household.

Paid your wife a fixed amount per month?

They did not really pay, because the money was already in the safe.

It was deducted on her account.

With me. Do not wait for me. It is getting late.

Yes, it takes a while.

- Do you have a picture of the father? - She did not have Mrs Serre anymore.

This is going to last all night. That is getting food.

May I?

You already have that third window thought?

That is not wise. I would like a plausible explanation.

You will not get that.

You stay with it only once have new windows installed?

Last week, the day after the storm.

And after that you have no more glass purchased despite this note?

Will you come, Janvier?

My inspector is going to write down what you just said.

After what I wrote about my life, my husband and my mother in law ...

I'm sure you'll understand how I feel. You can still hear it all.

I am leaving Monday. Time will pass quickly.

I do not care much longer here.

I'm ready, chief. He's waiting.

I'm coming.

Focus especially on Maria van Aerts, her husband and her mother-in-law.

I want to know how they lived together.

Money, alcohol, the relationship of those two.

Jealousy maybe.

And focus on data about the father, the lawyer.

We have nothing about him. No letters, no photos. Strange.

As if he was banned from their lives.

Can I have a glass of water?

No glass of red wine?

Yes, that's part of the game.

For fear of your mother you drink in the secret.

- Is that a question? - No. You do not have to give an answer.

The father of my mother drank, her two brothers also ...

and her sister was in a mental institution.

There was never alcohol in the house.

My mother was scared that I would also touch the liquor.

She thinks it's hereditary.

Do you love your mother, Mr. Serre?

That is normal.

We have always lived together.

Just like in a marriage.

- What do you want to say with that? - Is your mother jealous?

This is more common in a widow with only one son.

Was your mother jealous of your relationships? Do you have a lot of friends?

What does that have to do with the 'disappearance' of my wife?

I do not have a letter of a friend found with you.

Or a group photo, that most people do have.

Something else has been noticed.

You only have pictures of it the family of your mother at home.

Not from your father or his family.

I am not aware of that.

Do you know when they are destroyed?

How do you remember your father?

Does that question also belong to the questioning?

Our conversation is not recorded.

Your father was a lawyer.

What kind of life did he lead? Was he often at home ...

or did he lead a public life?

- He often went out. - With your mother?

Barely.

- Did he have mistresses? - I do not know.

Did your father die in bed?

- No, on the stairs. - Were you there?

No, I was not at home.

When I came back, he was already dead for two hours.

- Who was his doctor? - Doctor Dutilleux.

- Does it still live? - No, he's been dead for over ten years.

You were home when your first wife died?

Answer the question, please.

- Yes, I was home. - Where were you?

- In my office. - What time was it?

- About nine o'clock in the evening. - Was your wife in her room?

- She was unwell. - Was your mother with her?

I do not know that anymore.

- Did your mother call you? - I believe so.

Wash your wife already dead when you came to her room?

She then lived for a quarter of an hour. She died when someone called.

- Who was her doctor? - Doctor Dutilleux.

Was that your doctor?

Why do you have that attempted burglary? not indicated?

There is nothing to indicate.

Where is your wife, Mr. Serre?

We will have to find her.

Your turn, Janvier. Give him a glass of water.

She is in the waiting room. The mother.

All the better. Let Vannier record the conversation in shorthand.

I'm leaving. Nobody knows yet. Not even the old lady.

She always smiles, as long as I do what she wants.

It is the most selfish woman that I know.

Guillaume will be relieved that I leave.

We have not had anything for a long time in common.

I have never been able to get used to it to the smell of his skin.

Do you now understand why we are not sleeping in the same room?

You say you are the taxi driver not seen ...

but he had the luggage anyway to grab?

I do not know. I was inside.

I'm still frightened after two years when he comes to my room.

Fortunately, this happens rarely.

He thinks that he is doing me a favor.

Or that it is his duty. Maybe it should he does it from his mother.

Do not worry. I think that I stay busy all night.

What are you doing?

Kiss you.

So you did not help your wife with her luggage?

No. I was in my room and the shutters were closed.

- How much luggage did she have? - One cabin trunk and two suitcases.

- Will you hold me here for a long time? - That's up to you.

It is no less tiring to just say the truth?

- When did you kill your wife? - I did not kill her.

Go eat, Janvier.

Have some sandwiches and beer.

Why are you with Maria van Aerts married?

Mother was scared that I would stay alone.

She still sees me as a child and finds that someone has to take care of me.

And to keep you from drinking. Have a seat.

What do you mean?

Have you ever heard yourself say that your father took it well?

- He went out a lot. - And spent a lot of money.

Perhaps.

- Did your mother argue about that? - Making a quarrel is not in our nature.

What has your first marriage you delivered?

We do not speak the same language, Mr. Maigret.

You are in community of goods married?

I already told you that.

Your first wife was rich. You have inherited it from her.

Do you find that abnormal?

As long as the body of your second woman is not found ...

you can not inherit from her.

I also do not inherit from her if she is still alive.

- Do you think she is still alive? - I did not kill her.

The hardware dealer is therefore mistaken regarding that third piece of window glass?

- It's my word against his. - Unless you killed your wife.

So on Tuesday morning you met nothing strange in your office.

No. Also no toolbox. I've said that a few times.

You have the right to me interrogate...

but your inspector has these questions already stated.

You are trying to make me soft. But that can take a while.

Short and good: I did not kill my wife.

And I do not give an answer anymore to questions that have already been asked.

Your mother is here.

She has been sitting for more than two hours in the waiting room.

Do you want her there all night keep waiting?

She can do what she wants. I do not stop her.

I would not want to do your job.

Do you want to eat something?

Gladly. Thank you.

- Do you want to speak to your mother? - No. I have nothing to say to her.

- Did she eat anything? - I do not know. She can leave.

- She does not do that as long as I'm here. - That will take some time.

- How is she doing? - Good.

She is busy talking with an ex-prostitute.

- Can you have her bring a sandwich? - Has already happened.

Tell Torrence that he is Bonestaak brings to Lucas.

- What did she say? - She wanted to know why I was here.

So then I hung up a story. And then she started asking questions.

- About what? - About you.

I've been told that you are everyone gets talking.

You are kidding me.

That you are someone in the winter naked in your office ...

- with all windows open. - You can not, Ernestine.

It did make an impression.

She is less confident. Much more nervous.

- She asked if you beat them too. - With a whip for sure.

That just does not work.

Your mother thinks I torture you.

- What did you say to her? - I nothing.

Probably the girl who is sitting with her.

That kind of people makes up everything to do interesting.

Can I speak to her?

- Who? - My mother.

No. I'm going to talk to her myself.

- My mother does not know anything. - And you?

Me neither.

You force me for her just as interrogate as you do.

- You have no compassion at all. - With whom?

With an old lady.

Maria van Aerts was also happy become old.

Your turn, Janvier. I'm going to the mother.

The tall woman wants to speak to you.

She does not feel well. She waits in the room of Inspector Lucas.

- Beer, Marcel? - I will not finish that.

Close door, Commissioner.

What is it?

I could not hold on any longer. What a terrible person.

I do not know how d'r son is, but she is more crooked than I am.

She kept asking and I did not notice anything.

- Did you say who you were? - No, but she guessed it.

- What? - That I have dotted.

She asked about the prison, and I got kicked into it.

- Did you tell about Alfred? - Yes, but not what he did.

She has asked for at least an hour about prison life.

Do you not have a drink here?

That pincer has completely exhausted me. You want to know that.

- Did she talk about her son? - No, but she looked up to every sound.

And then she asked something what might interest you.

She asked if I knew people who died under the guillotine.

What time is it?

- Two o'clock. Go home. - No. I will stay here.

Photos of Mrs Van Aerts. There was a note from Mrs Oosting.

She thought they could come in handy. I found something interesting.

They hate traveling.

They are only once have been abroad.

To London. It seems they were then all became seasick ...

and by the ship's doctor have been treated.

So when I proposed to go to Nice to go, they said nothing at first.

Later, Guillaume said that his mother it found a shocking idea.

He asked me to please to abandon.

The drawer of my bedside table was open ...

and he automatically glanced at it.

He was completely pale when he did it gun of my trip to Egypt saw ...

and he asked if it was loaded.

I showed him the empty warehouse. Then he asked if I had bullets for it.

I said that they had to be somewhere.

Later my mother-in-law said that a lady should not possess a weapon.

I had to give it to her.

I refused that, because it was a souvenir.

I've thought about it, Mr. Serre. You have not lied so much.

Maria did not have to disappear. You have no interest in that.

She really had to going to the Netherlands.

I do not know if she had to come to your house die or after her departure.

Once she was gone. That's right, is not it?

She had to die a natural death, or something that looked like that.

But it did not go as you wanted, and you did had to hide the body and the luggage.

But there is something wrong with me.

After the farewell your wife is still gone back to your office ...

because her body has been found there.

You do not have to answer. You just have to listen.

Meanwhile, I know that your wife had an automatic pistol.

Perhaps you shot out of self-defense. I would like to take that from you.

You were confused and left to get your car.

You are wrong, Mr. Serre.

Sooner or later we will find the body and we see that your wife has been shot.

I only wonder with which weapon. Yours or hers.

If it was hers, she came maybe back to claim something ...

and she has threatened you.

Maybe because of a money issue.

In any case, you have nothing to fear.

You can even do it on self-defense throw.

Only the question remains why your wife has come back and you have been threatened.

What do you think of my reasoning?

Nothing.

Do you still not want to talk?

I answer your questions.

Your wife has not claimed her money and you are not threatened?

My wife never threatened me.

Not so sure, Mr. Serre. You can regret that.

You must convince the jury that your life was in danger.

You have no interest in it to sit with a corpse.

At least not with a corpse that you can not show.

At the death of your first wife ...

you could call Doctor Dutilleux to draw up a death certificate.

Maria also had a heart condition. She had also a natural death must die.

That had already succeeded before.

- Now it was against. - I did not kill.

And also her body and the tools not hidden?

There has been no burglar.

He might be standing in a few hours for your nose.

It is a recidivist. We know him.

He told his wife everything. She is in the waiting room with your mother.

It is time that you makes a decision.

It is now three o'clock.

I have nothing to say to you.

Good.

Then I will be your mother have to question.

I had her that ordeal want to save.

You again, Janvier.

I found something, Commissioner.

It was easy. I have gone all the quays.

- Where does this come from? - Quai de Billancourt.

But a barge had unloaded bricks.

- When? - Last Monday.

The quay is full of red dust. The same as what we found.

- Call the river police. - Has already happened.

Will you come along, Mrs Serre?

Have a seat.

- Does your son suffer from a heart condition? - He has always had a weak heart.

I do not like to say bad news, certainly not to someone of your age ...

but he killed his wife.

- He denies, but we have proof. - What kind of proof?

We know that he is the body in the Seine has thrown at the Quai de Billancourt.

He does not want to throw it on self-defense. That is not smart.

I'm sure his wife threatened him with a weapon.

Or she has threatened you.

When he wanted to take the weapon, it went off.

There is a third possibility.

That your son has shot first with his own weapon.

I was in my room.

- Did you hear anything? - Only the door and a car.

- The taxi? - I think so. She would take a taxi.

- You do not know for sure? - I did not see anything.

- Maybe it was your son's car. "He had not been away," he said.

Last were you sure your daughter in law had taken a taxi.

- That's still true. - You do not know for sure anymore.

You have been setting me up for two days now the same questions. I do not know anymore.

And I've been waiting for hours. I can not anymore.

Why did you come here?

I want to be with my son if he has a hard time.

- Are you also following him to prison? - I do not understand that.

You would be a part of the debt to take your son on you?

- He did not do anything. - Are you sure?

Why would he kill his wife?

- Are you convinced of his innocence? - As far as I know.

- Could he have done it? - He had no reason for it.

Yet he did it.

As soon as the officer is there, I propose your son in charge.

He does not stand a chance. He gets the death penalty.

His first wife will be unearthed.

Certain types of poison you can find in the skeleton.

That is not possible. I do not believe you, Commissioner.

You just want me to suffer.

Let me talk to him.

Leave me alone with him, then I will find out the truth.

Are you Monday night stayed in your room?

You have not been downstairs?

Why would I? That man finally left.

Your son has his first and not his second wife killed.

Nor does his father.

Let me finish, Mrs Serre.

We're going to this case as neatly as possible.

We are not busy for a while with the proofs. They will come later.

I'm almost certain that your first daughter-in-law is poisoned.

It was not an aggressive poison like arsenic, which is often used.

Your son's first and second wife had a heart condition.

And certain medications that are harmless to others ...

can be deadly for heart patients.

In one of the letters to her female friend...

Maria writes that you are with your husband and son to England ...

and that you all three have become seasick ...

and by the ship's doctor treated.

Do you know what is against seasickness is prescribed?

- Not really? - Usually atropine.

Too much atropine is fatal for a heart patient.

- So my husband died on ... - We'll talk about your husband later.

Even though there is no evidence, we know...

that your husband the last years of his life has wasted his money.

Your money. You have always been afraid to suffer poverty.

Not for myself, but for my son. But that proves nothing.

Then your son married and lived there another woman in your home.

A woman who had the same rights as you.

This woman also had a heart condition. And she was rich. Richer than you.

You mean to say that I am her have poisoned, like my husband?

Then I certainly poisoned Mary too?

Probably. Because she took her money with her.

Coincidentally she also suffered from a heart condition.

I only wonder why the body is gone.

If she was only poisoned with atropine ...

had a doctor without more a heart attack.

She could have got it later, in the train.

You seem very sure of your case, Commissioner.

I'm sure something happened.

An unforeseen event, which your son has shot.

Let's assume that Mary became unwell when she called a taxi.

She did not trust it. She already knew you for a long time.

She went to the office. There you were.

- How do you know I was there? - Because she suspected you immediately.

Death by poisoning is nine ten times the work of women.

She thought of you and when you were in your room had been, she had gone there.

Maybe she threatened you or did she want to call the police ...

- but you had no choice. - So I killed her?

Your son probably shot.

He finished your work.

- Do you want something to drink, chief? - No. Go home, boy.

Your son takes all the blame. I can not stop him from doing that.

Until now he has denied, and he is able to keep that up.

- Unless ... - Unless what?

I've heard a man who kept his mouth for fourteen hours.

Your son is convinced that you did it for him.

Because you take good care of him wanted to leave. And out of jealousy.

But that's not true.

You are not afraid that he, something too short, but you yourself.

Those murders were not for him. And now you are afraid that he will drop.

You do not care that he goes to the prison must or must be executed.

If you are quiet at home your money can continue to count.

Are you going to sit down, Mrs Serre.

Mr. Serre can go. It is over.

- I have not known anything. - That does not matter.

I could have gone further, you talk to your son.

But there are enough victims already for an old lady.

You would have given him those pills and then he would never have talked again.

The river police has called. The diver has found a trunk.

The rest will follow.

Take her to the house of detention. He also, as an accomplice.

- Are they still there? - They're just leaving.

It is over. You can go home.

Has he known?

No. She did it.

What is it, Ernestine?

Nothing, Commissioner.

But it could have been done that you had not believed me.

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