Guinguette by the Seine

Guinguette by the Seine (Fr. La Guinguette à deux sous, "the two-penny bar") is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Inspector Jules Maigret.

Maigret visits a condemned man is prison who tells him that six years earlier he had witnessed a body being dumped it in the Canal Saint-Martin. Maigret's investigations bring him to a "two-penny bar" on the Seine at Morsang. A man is shot outside the bar and the suspect escapes police custody. Now Maigret has two deaths to investigate. He discovers a story of blackmail, adultery and financial ruin before the killers confess.

The novel has been twice translated into English and twice filmed.