Friend Of Madame Maigret

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101992517

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Madame Maigret's Friend by Georges Simenon Pdf

“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian Inspector Maigret steps in when an anonymous note to the police reports that a body has been burned in a bookbinder’s furnace An anonymous note to the police reports that a body has been burned in the furnace of a bookbinder on the Rue de Turenne. Preliminary investigations turn up suspicious details—and two human teeth of a man who’d been alive not long before. Meanwhile, Madame Maigret has had a strange experience while waiting for her dentist appointment. A woman she had often met on the bench while waiting suddenly leaves her young child in Madame Maigret’s care and disappears for over an hour, returning to take the child and vanishing without explanation. When Maigret’s investigation is blown wide open, it seems the two incidents might be related in ways no one could have predicted.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440677984

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Friend of Madame Maigret by Georges Simenon Pdf

In The Friend of Madame Maigret, Simenon?s economic prose brilliantly portrays the Marais quarter of Paris and those who haunt its narrow streets as Inspector Maigret attempts to prove that a murder has actually been committed without a corpse anywhere to be found. As the investigation becomes increasingly complex, seemingly unconnected characters are drawn into the case, and Maigret begins to wonder if his wife?s earlier strange encounter with a woman and her baby may be the missing link.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Police
ISBN : 1440675341

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The Friend of Madame Maigret by Georges Simenon Pdf

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Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525504214

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Maigret's Childhood Friend by Georges Simenon Pdf

When a familiar face from Maigret's past brings him word of a mysterious killing, the Inspector jumps on the case When a long lost friend pays a visit to Maigret's office, he is shocked to learn that the man's roommate has been murdered. With the help of his old friend, Maigret delves into the life of the victim and finds a complex web of relationships that leads him to the culprit. Absorbing and impossible to predict, Maigret's Childhood Friend is a riveting mystery that reveals a new shade to the iconic detective.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015006582061

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Maigret's Boyhood Friend by Georges Simenon Pdf

When Maigret receives a visit from an old schoolmate whose mistress has been shot to death, he feels compelled to look into the case. Yet his friend is one of the suspects--along with the dead woman's four other lovers, each unknown to the others. The basis for a public television Mystery! presentation. Translated by Eileen Ellenbogen. Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Detective and mystery stories
ISBN : UCSC:32106014863424

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Madame Maigret's Own Case by Georges Simenon Pdf

On Rue de Turenne, two human teeth are found in the old furnace of a Flemish bookbinder, who is taken into custody. A neighboring shoemaker is willing to talk, but his stories vary with each trip he makes to the local tavern. The case seems impossibly perplexing until Madame Maigret leaves her kitchen to offer her husband able assistance. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101992487

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My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon Pdf

“[My Friend Maigret] is a great vehicle for passing the dead minutes…by pondering, with Maigret, the challenges of order versus chaos, how to serve justice, if it needs serving—and an island filled with ‘nothing but phenomena.’” —The New York Times Book Review Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a small-time crook on a Mediterranean island While Inspector Pyke of Scotland Yard is staying with Maigret to observe his methods, Maigret receives word of a murder in the Midi on the island of Porquerolles. The victim is Marcellin, a man who claims to have been Maigret’s friend but was actually a criminal whose girlfriend, a sex worker, Maigret helped out of a scrape years ago. Travelling to the island, Maigret and Pyke must solve a mystery that takes them deep into the shadowy world of art forgery and the heart of an isolated community with eccentric inhabitants—and no shortage of secrets. My Friend Maigret is a page-turning mystery set in the sun-drenched south of France about what can happen when past acquaintances resurface. “One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101992562

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Maigret Takes a Room by Georges Simenon Pdf

“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian When a man is killed outside a Parisian boarding house, Inspector Maigret moves in to get to the bottom of it While keeping watch outside Mademoiselle Clément’s boarding house to await a suspect in a local bar robbery, a man named Janvier is shot in the chest. When Maigret, whose wife is away caring for her sister in Alsace, hears of the crime, he moves into the boarding house to solve the case. But the web quickly grows ever-more tangled, and Maigret must navigate generations-long secrets and a torrid affair to find his answers before it’s too late.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141977935

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The Two-Penny Bar by Georges Simenon Pdf

Previously published as The Bar on the Seine A forgotten crime comes to light in the Parisian summer in Georges Simenon's twisted tale. Book eleven in the new Penguin Maigret series. 'A radiant late afternoon. The sunshine almost as thick as syrup in the quiet streets of the Left Bank . . . there are days like this, when ordinary life seems heightened, when the people walking down the street, the trams and cars all seem to exist in a fairy tale.' A story told by a condemned man leads Maigret to a bar by the Seine and into the sleazy underside of respectable Parisian life. In the oppressive heat of summer, a forgotten crime comes to light. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel is a revised translation, previously published as The Bar on the Seine. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : French fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106011414130

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Maigret in Vichy by Georges Simenon Pdf

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525504009

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Maigret's Secret by Georges Simenon Pdf

“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian At a lavish dinner party, Inspector Maigret recounts the tale of an old case that has haunted him for years At one of his friends’ frequent dinner parties, Maigret shares the story of a case from a few years back that haunts him to this day, in which a man named Adrien Josset was found guilty and was executed for the murder of his wife, Christine. Adrien had been a weak-willed, mild-mannered man, but Christine, who was much wealthier than he, had used her connections to land him an influential position in an important career. Maigret had interviewed Adrien only once when the examining magistrate took over the case and successfully moved to have him executed. But though all the clues pointed to Adrien’s guilt, Maigret remained unconvinced, and years later, he still doubts the murderer’s true identity. Maigret’s Secret is a thought-provoking dive into the machinations of justice, and the ways in which they can sweep away an innocent man’s life.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0143111965

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The Madman of Bergerac by Georges Simenon Pdf

After being wounded while following a man who had mysteriously jumped off a train, Inspector Maigret becomes caught up in an investigtion in a provincial French town terrorized by a maniacal murderer. Original.

Author : Murielle Wenger,Stephen Trussel
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476669779

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Maigret's World by Murielle Wenger,Stephen Trussel Pdf

Georges Simenon's 75 novels and 28 short stories that feature Chief Inspector Jules Maigret provide us with a great deal of information about the French police detective--but only in small, episodic doses. As readers become acquainted with Maigret one detail at a time, he slowly takes on a flesh-and-bone realism--not merely a character in a story, but someone we would like to meet in real life. This book presents all the canonical facts and details about the detective and his world in one place, presented with tabulations and analyses that enable a better understanding of the works and of Maigret himself.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241240175

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Maigret's Memoirs by Georges Simenon Pdf

“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian A fictional autobiography of Maigret, Georges Simenon’s brilliant detective In this make-believe memoir, Maigret recounts a meeting with the author himself. The account starts with the arrival of Georges Sim, as he is called here, at the Paris Police Judiciaire to soak up atmosphere for his crime novels by dogging the footsteps of Inspector Maigret. The detective is irritated by the audacious young writer who names a character after him and argues that he oversimplifies, in his fiction, the intricate duties of the police investigating a case. Here, Maigret “sets the record straight,” telling readers how he’s different from the invention, and about his courtship and marriage to his beloved Louise. Ingeniously amusing and tender, Maigret’s Memoirs is a look inside the mind of the brilliant Maigret like never before.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781524705374

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Maigret Is Afraid by Georges Simenon Pdf

“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian Maigret stumbles upon a series of murders in Fontenay-le-Comte while visiting an old school friend On his way home from a conference, Maigret stops to visit an old school friend in Fontenay-le-Comte. A man in the same train car introduces himself and asks if Maigret has come to help solve the murder case. In fact, the man’s brother-in-law had been murdered four days earlier, followed by the murder of a local widow in the same way, a blow to the head with a pipe. While Maigret is in town, a third murder is reported. Maigret soon discovers that there are two warring factions in the town, a clear class separation, and an air of suspicion that only he can put to rest.