- Fiction, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Romance literature
In his suit and bowler hat Superintendent Maigret feels out of place among the palm trees, the bright colors, the half-clad, bronzed vacationers on the Côte d'Azur. And the murder case that has called him here seems, somehow, not serious.
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Classical in form, grave, contemplative and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Georges Simenon
- First published
- 1977
- Pages
- 160
- Publisher
- L & PM, Pocket, T︠S︡entrpoligraf
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- Portuguese, German, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9782253142522
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- Fiction
- Jules Maigret (Fictitious character)
- Police
- Romance literature
- Mystery fiction
- Detective and mystery stories, French
- French Detective and mystery stories
- Translations into Russian
- Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction
- Paris (france), fiction
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon était un écrivain belge. Auteur prolifique, il a publié près de 200 romans et de nombreuses nouvelles. Il est surtout connu pour avoir créé le roman policier Maigret. ---------- Georges Joseph Christian Simenon was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 200 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is best known for the creation of the fictional detective Maigret.<sup>[1][1]</sup> [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Simenon
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