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The story begins with Paris on the threshold of spring. It is March, Madame Maigret is away in Alsace to be with her sister who is soon to give birth to her third child, and Maigret finds himself without any urgent cases to mull over. This is unusual for him, because Maigret has a passion for his jo...
bookshelves: autumn-2015, published-1932, series, tbr-busting-2015, translation, france Read on September 26, 2015 Dramatisation with Denholm ElliottWL The Man Who Watched Trains Go By3* Maigret in Society3* The Blue RoomWL My Friend Maigret (Maigret #31)3* The Saint-Fiacre Affair3* Maigret in...
Loursat has been satisfied for the past 18 years with waking up well into day, pulling a few more bottles of wine up from the basement, walking around one block, eating a silent dinner with his 20 year old daughter and going back up to his warm study to read and drink until he feels he can sleep aga...
A reclusive attorney develops a new sense of life when a murder is committed under his own roof. His daughter's involvement with a "gang" of petty criminal stirs something in him that had lain dormant for years.4 STARS
A short Maigret in the classic Simenon tradition wherein Maigret solves a baffling mystery. An old woman and her maid is killed by a man to whom all the evidence points, yet even though he was the arresting officer, Maigret cannot reconcile the psychology of the man with the evidence. He arranges ...
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