- Fiction, French fiction, Mystery, French language
A vagrant living under a bridge is assaulted at night, knocked hard enough to fracture his skull, and thrown into the River Seine. Two bargemen from barges moored nearby fish him out of the cold water before he drowns and he ends up in the hospital in a coma.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- Georges Simenon
- First published
- 1963
- Pages
- 154
- Publisher
- Hamilton, Penguin Books, Limited, Harcourt
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- rum, Portuguese, English, French
- ISBN
- 9780320066375
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“For a moment, somewhere between the Quai des Orfevres and the Pont Marie, Maigret halted, so briefly that Lapointe, who was walking beside him, did not notice.”
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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