by Georges Simenon
In "LOCK 14", Simenon makes alive to the reader the lives of the people --- bargees. boat owners and sailors, carters, barmen, cafe owners, restauranteurs, and lockmen --- whose lives and livelihoods were intimately or tangibly linked to the network of locks and canals of France's network of inland ...
Certainly no need to summarize the plot. This is another of the wonderful series of police procedurals by George Simenon featuring Chief Inspector Maigret, the calm, pipe-smoking Parisian detective, who, in an almost plodding manner succeeds in bringing the villains to justice. That raises some int...
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