Tonight's Movie: Maigret Sets a Trap (1958) - A Kino Lorber Blu-ray Review

Last month I reviewed Jean Gabin in the title role of the very enjoyable police detective movie MAIGRET SEES RED (1963).MAIGRET SEES RED recently had a single-title Blu-ray release by Kino Lorber; now that film has also been released as part of Kino Lorber's three-film Inspector Maigret Collection, along with MAIGRET SETS A TRAP (1958) and MAIGRET AND THE ST. FIACRE CASE (1959).MAIGRET SETS A TRAP, also known as INSPECTOR MAIGRET or, in France, MAIGRET TEND UN PIEGE, was the first of Gabin's three Maigret films.This time around Police Inspector Maigret is working to solve the case of a serial killer, as women are stabbed in the streets of Paris at night, their clothes left in shreds.Maigret's focus gradually turns to a butcher shop and its connections to architect/decorator Marcel Maurin (Jean Desailly), Marcel's unfaithful wife Yvonne (Annie Girardot), and his mother (Lucienne Bogaert).As was the case with MAIGRET SEES RED, I found MAIGRET SETS A TRAP to be a thoroughly enjoyable…