- Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, Large type books
M travels to the tiny town of Saint-Aubin-les-Marais, near Niort, in the Vendée, at the request of the Examining Magistrate Victor Bréjon. His brother-in-law, Étienne Naud had asked him for help, since after the death of a young man, Albert Retailleau, rumors had been flying that Naud was involved.
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- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Georges Simenon
- First published
- 1979
- Pages
- 182
- Publisher
- Adelphi, Chivers, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- Italian, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780816144266
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- Jules Maigret (Fictitious character)
- Police
- Fiction
- Large type books
- Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- Maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction
- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- Paris (france), fiction
- France, fiction
- Kriminalfall
- Fiction, mystery & detective, general
“Maigret surveyed his fellow passengers with wide-open, sullen eyes and, without meaning to, assumed that self-important look people put on when they have spent mindless hours in the compartment of a train.”
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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