- Police spouses, Fiction, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police
Madame Maigret takes the lead in a disturbing investigation in this new translation, book thirty-three of the new Penguin Maigret series. When he got to his door, he was surprised not to hear any noise in the kitchen and not to smell any food.
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- earnestironic
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- Author
- Georges Simenon
- First published
- 1950
- Pages
- 187
- Publisher
- Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Tusquets
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- alb, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9782253142256
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- Police spouses
- Fiction
- Jules Maigret (Fictitious character)
- Police
- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction
- Paris (france), fiction
- France, fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- Romance literature
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
“The chicken was on the stove, with a fine red carrot, a big onion, and a bunch of parsley with the stems sticking out.”
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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