- Detective and mystery stories, French, French Detective and mystery stories, Translations into Russian, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character)
Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret's Special Murder.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Georges Simenon
- First published
- 1948
- Pages
- 189
- Publisher
- Adelphi, Booket, Published for the Crime Club by Doubleday
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- Portuguese, German, French, Russian
- ISBN
- 9782253142430
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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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