- Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
Maigret's past comes to life in this evocative novel, set in the Inspector's home town. The last time Maigret went home to the village of his birth was for his father's funeral. Now an anonymous note predicting a crime during All Souls' Day mass draws him back there, where troubling memories resurface and hidden vices are revealed.
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- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Georges Simenon
- First published
- 1932
- Pages
- 150
- Publisher
- Fayard, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 38
- Language
- Dutch, Portuguese, wel, German
- ISBN
- 9788496171138
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- Jules Maigret (Fictitious character)
- Police
- Fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- Maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction
- Paris (france), fiction
- Large type books
- French language materials
- Language readers
- French literature (outside France)
- Literatură belgiană de limbă franceză
- Kriminalfall
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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