- French language, translation, mystery, Fiction
For over two decades Superintendent Maigret has been stumped in his efforts to identify the operators of a gang conducting daring daylight smash-and-run jewelry store robberies. When the body of Corsican immigrant Manuel Palmari turns up slumped in his wheelchair in his apartment, a bullet through his neck, Maigret begins by interviewing the other residents of his apartment building.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Georges Simenon
- First published
- 1965
- Pages
- 185
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Editions Flammarion, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- Polish, English, Italian, French
- ISBN
- 9782258030398
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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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