Maigret sits in judgement on the bourgeoisie of a small Breton town I'm new to Maigret. "The Yellow Dog", the sixth Maigret, is my first Maigret novel, so apart from what I read in "A Maigret Christmas And Other Stories" I came to this novel with no particular knowledge or expectations of Maigret ...
This was a really good read. Maigret finds himself dealing with Dutch people (the horror!) with the mystery of a dead husband.The characters are well drawn. Miagret is a pleasure to read and this book looks closely at the pressures of a small community.
Door 7: International Day for Tolerance Book: Read a book set in Paris (seat of UNESCO). This was my first ever Maigret book. I bought it because I loved the cover - which is an odd reason given that I read the Kindle version where no one but me sees the cover. I opened ...
I actually did finish this several days ago. This was my second Maigret, and wasn't as good as The Yellow Dog, IMO. I liked it, but I didn't love it. Maigret's behavior felt somewhat inexplicable to me throughout most of the book, and I felt like the solution to the mystery was fairly pedestrian. ...
This is the first Maigret that I have read, though it is not the first Simenon that I’ve read. I’ve read this after watching the Rowan Atkinson version of Maigret. And those are great. This book is actually three stories – one of which stars Maigret and his wife,...
The novel takes the reader to Paris in early August. It is a rather hot and stale summer in the city, where breezes are few, and those that arise tend to be arid and dry. Enough to make anyone wish for rain. At the headquarters of the Police Judiciaire at Quai des Orfèvres, Inspector Maigret feels v...
Oh boy. This is the first of the 70+ Maigret novels that Georges Simenon published over the course of 40 years, beginning in 1931, and it's perhaps a sign of just how far crime writing has evolved since then that this book was published (in serialized form initially) "as is": I'm willing to wager t...
Series: Maigret #1 I admit that I started skimming before the halfway mark but didn't drop it entirely because I wanted to see whether it went anywhere. It sort of did, but I really wasn't impressed by a "mystery" where the supposedly great detective just follows a suspected criminal around becaus...
Published 2014 (in English) Back in the day I did a year of French. My teacher was a native speaker. You’d think that this would make her fun and interesting, right? You couldn’t be more wrong! All she did was drill us on grammar, and I couldn’t even understand what she was saying half the time. She...
There were so many promising selections and recommendations from everyone for locked-room mysteries, I found it a little overwhelming: what to choose? Then I stumbled across this book at my library and it seemed the perfect answer; at 900+ pages I was certain to find a few good stories and all ...
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