- Fiction, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police, Inspector Maigret (Fictitious character)
When a small time crook—a drunk, thug, pimp, and thief—is murdered on a small Mediterranean island just after he was heard boasting loudly about his policeman "friend" Maigret, Inspector Maigret is compelled to leave Paris to investigate the crime. But no one seems to have a motive for the killing. Not the old English lady and her male "secretary," nor the aging prostitute or the Dutch anarchist. But all of them have secrets they prefer to keep hidden.
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- earnestironic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Georges Simenon
- First published
- 1949
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Livre de Poche, Penguin Books Ltd, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- German, Spanish, French, English
- ISBN
- 9780141981314
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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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