This is the first of Simenon's Maigret series that I had already seen as a TV adaptation (the early 90's version with Michael Gambon as Maigret. Recommended). Maigret tend un piège is on par with most of Simenon's books that I've read so far. I prefer it when the stories have more 'colour' in them, but having the TV adaptation in the back of my mind helped compensate for that.

Another interesting note on the book is that the edition that I read had ligatures for the every occurrence of 'ct' and 'st' in the text (examples available on this page). First time I had ever seen that. I thought it was a printing error!