The ever-cocky Radek is confident that the detective will be unable to link him with the murders and invites him to lunch at the Eiffel Tower. ![]() Maigret, meanwhile, secures the serial numbers from money that Bill receives at his hotel and later finds Radek at the café. After his very much alive mother agrees to shelter Huertin, Radek orders the fugitive to remain in her cellar. ![]() Radek, meanwhile, eludes the plainclothesmen who trail him after he is released and makes his way to his mother's house. Maigret then interviews one of Radek's professors and learns that Radek is a manic-depressive, brilliant but unbalanced. At the police station, Maigret questions the Czech-born Radek, who reveals that, as a youth, he studied medicine while being supported by his now-deceased mother Elizabeth. The clever Radek deduces that Maigret is a policeman and, to scare off Huertin, gets himself arrested. Eventually, Maigret sees Huertin peering inside, furtively looking at Radek, who is eating yogurt and sipping coffee. Maigret then goes to the same café where Bill received his note, which is in the area where Huertin peddles his skills, and waits. The unflappable Maigret, however, sends the original letter to a handwriting expert, who notices that it has coffee stains on it. ![]() When Janvier, anxious that Huertin not see the letter, inadvertently frightens him and then loses him, Maigret's methods are called into question by his superior, Comelieu. The next morning, however, an anonymous letter appears in the newspaper, claiming that the police freed Huertin out of desperation. Hoping that Huertin will lead him to his accomplice, Maigret then allows him to escape from prison and has plainclothesmen Janvier and Dufour follow him to a cheap hotel. Sure that the knife grinder could not have made his way home unaided, Maigret tries to pry Radek's name out of Huertin, but fails. The next day, police inspector Maigret arrests Huertin, having found his glasses, and interrogates him at the jail. Before leading him home, the self-assured Radek tells Huertin that, although he will be arrested for the murders, he, Radek, will get him out of jail. Outside, the almost blind Huertin meets up with his coldblooded accomplice, Johann Radek, a man who had been eavesdropping on Bill's conversation at the café. When a terrified Huertin trips while fleeing, his glasses fall off, and the women's attacker deliberately crushes the spectacles with his foot. ![]() V.'s offer, the capricious Bill rolls a pair of dice, which come up "aces." That night, Joseph Huertin, a timid, nearsighted knife grinder whose beautiful wife Gisella berates him for being poor, breaks into the Henderson home intending to rob the place, but finds Bill's aunt and her maid stabbed to death in a bedroom. V.," obtusely accepts his recent "proposition." To decide how to respond to M. Moments later, Bill finds a note by his feet, in which the writer, "M. When Edna immediately insinuates that she will leave Bill unless he obtains some money, Bill jokingly suggests that he would pay one million francs to have his aunt killed. Edna then coaxes Bill into revealing their affair to Helen, and the hurt but pragmatic Helen agrees to grant her husband a divorce on condition that she receive a handsome settlement. In a Parisian café, American Bill Kirby, his wife Helen and his flashy lover, Edna Warren, discuss Bill's rich, elderly aunt, Juliet Henderson, who refuses to give her ne'er-do-well nephew any of her money prior to her death.
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