- Fiction, French language, Jules Maigret (Fictitious character), Police
The police knew him as "Sad Freddie." The newspapers tagged him "the burglar on a bike." Once he had worked for a safe-manufacturing firm. Now he was In business for himself, cracking the safes he had once installed.
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- classical in formformally daring
- resolvedopen-ended
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Georges Simenon
- First published
- 1955
- Pages
- 172
- Publisher
- Diogenes, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Penguin Books, Limited
- Editions
- 28
- Language
- Spanish, English, und, French
- ISBN
- 9783257238389
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- Fiction
- French language
- Jules Maigret (Fictitious character)
- Police
- Readers
- Textbooks for foreign speakers
- Large type books
- Maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction
- France, fiction
- Paris (france), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
“The official slip of paper, duly filled in and handed to Maigret by the office boy, read: Ernestine Micou, alias Lofty (now Jussiaume), who, when you arrested her seventeen years ago on rue de la Lune, stripped herself naked to taunt you, requests the favor of an interview on a matter of most urgent and important business.”
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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