Maigret's rival
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780151555550 (0151555559)
Publish date: April 1st 1980
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Series: Maigret (#25)
As a favor to a friend (a magistrate), Maigret travels by train to a village in the Vendee to investigate a questionable death, which the community, in an apparent conspiracy of silence, has hushed up. Though kindly taken in by his friend's provincial relations, Maigret is largely accorded the sile...
this is third i've read, and so far my least favourite. i like a lot of what is done in this one: take maigret out of paris, away from his reputation and see how effective an investigator he can be is an interesting to place to go, and to read this one right after the one where i became aware that h...