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A man reports to the police that he has found a note on a blotter in a café. The note signed “Picpus” says that a fortuneteller will be murdered at 5:00, and in fact, Mlle Jeanne is found murdered shortly after. In <b>Maigret and the Fortuneteller</b> our inspector has to proceed through a frustrating maze of seemingly unconnected suspects and only the most fragmentary clues. Picpus (derived from French pique-puce = flea-bite) may refer to