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Pietr the Latvian - Georges Simenon, David Bellos
Pietr the Latvian
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3.79 35
Format: paperback
ISBN: 9780141392738 (0141392738)
ASIN: 141392738
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 176
Edition language: English
Series: Maigret (#1)
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Themis-Athena's Garden of Books
Themis-Athena's Garden of Books rated it
3.0 Mind Games
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...
Themis-Athena's Garden of Books
Themis-Athena's Garden of Books rated it
3.0 Mind Games
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...
Tannat
Tannat rated it
1.0 Pietr le Letton by Georges Simenon
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...
Cynically Speaking
Cynically Speaking rated it
3.5
On a detective roll, going back and reading Inspector Maigret's first book. It takes place in Paris sometime in the late 1920's or early 1930's. Short, sparse plot, little character development, but, there is Maigret. I look forward to reading many of Georges Simenon's Inspector Maigret books.
KOMET
KOMET rated it
4.0 ENTER MAIGRET
"Pietr the Latvian" introduces the world to Jules Maigret, Detective Chief Inspector of the Police Judiciaire in Paris for the very first time. The setting is a cool, rainy autumn afternoon in interwar Europe a little more than a decade after the end of the First World War. Simenon provides the read...
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