- Fiction, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
Chief Superintendent Margret finds himself, to his own surprise, attending an inquest in Tucson. Arizona, deposited there by an American colleague front the FBI. It in his first taste of the American judicial system, and he finds it strange indeed.
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- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- effortlessdemanding
- intimateepic
- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Georges Simenon
- First published
- 1954
- Pages
- 189
- Publisher
- Presses pocket, Livre de Poche, Tusquets
- Editions
- 19
- Language
- German, English, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9783257238327
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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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