Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Upper Grades (UG 9-12)
Book Level
5.2
Points
7.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Fiction
Word Count
44930
Points per Word
0.000156
Description
It takes two brutal stranglings and a beautiful corpse to lead Maigret, assisted by a lovelorn detective, into an all-too-familiar underworld where he traces a desperate eroticism to its inevitable conclusion.