David Coward
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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Description
Sailors don't talk much to other men in this insular fishing community, especially not to policemen. But after Captain Fallut's body is found floating near his trawler, they all mention the Evil Eye when they speak of the Ocean's voyage. To discover the truth about this doomed expedition, Maigret enters a remote, murky world of men on the margins of society, where fierce loyalties hide sordid deeds.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten in the evening. But how? And why? And no one had heard a thing! She had not screamed. The two carters had not woken up. Maigret is standing in the pouring rain by a canal. A well-dressed woman, Mary Lampson, has been found strangled in a stable...
3) A man's head
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. As his audacious plan to uncover the truth unfolds, he encounters rich American expatriates, some truly dangerous characters and their hidden motives.
4) Félicie
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Imperious, clever, mysterious: Maigret meets his match in the alluring form of Felicie in book twenty-five of the new Penguin Maigret series, In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert nose and especially the hat, that giddy, crimson bonnet perched on the top of her head with a bronze-green feather shaped like a blade stuck in it Felicie had given him more trouble...
6) Lock no. 1
Author
Series
Inspector Maigret volume 18
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realised that they were not important. Whatever roared by like this along the road was not part of the landscape. What really counted was the lock, the hooting of the tugs, the stone crusher, the barges and the cranes, the two pilots' bars and especially the tall house where he could make out Ducrau's red chair framed by a window.
"A man hauled out of the Charenton canal one...
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