- Detective and mystery stories, French, Fiction, French Detective and mystery stories, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character)
Almost anyone could have shot the ex-postmistress of Saint-André-sur-Mer. Why is Maigret there, among an odd assortment of people he has never seen before and charged with the task of digging out their deepest secrets? A secret agenda of his own draws him on.
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Classical in form, earnest, cool and grave.
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- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Georges Simenon
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 188
- Publisher
- Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Presses de la cite, Círculo de Lectores
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- Russian, English, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780241297575
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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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