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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Maigret is called to the home of Armand de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected official who has been found shot dead in his study by his housekeeper. After interviewing everyone concerned Maigret is at a loss to the identity of the perpetrator until he comes across a series of letters from the past fifty years between the victim and a recently widowed woman. As Maigret uncovers the details behind the two's relationship he gets closer to discovering...
2) Liberty Bar
Author
Series
Inspector Maigret volume 17
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
It had a smell of holidays. The previous evening, in Cannes harbour, with the setting sun, had also had the smell of holidays, especially the Ardena, whose owner swaggered in front of two girls with gorgeous figures.. Dazzled at first by the glamour of sunny Antibes, Maigret soon finds himself immersed in the less salubrious side of the Riviera as he retraces the final steps of a local eccentric. -- from Amazon.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"When multi-millionaire David Ward is found dead in the same hotel as a countess who attempted suicide only hours earlier, Maigret presumes that the two cases are connected. When the countess flees Paris after the murder Maigret follows her to Nice and then to Switzerland to uncover the truth."--Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Inspector Maigret volume 34
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Madame Maigret takes the lead in a disturbing investigation in this new translation, book thirty-three of the new Penguin Maigret series. When he got to his door, he was surprised not to hear any noise in the kitchen and not to smell any food. He went in, crossed the dining room, where the table had not been laid, and at last saw Madame Maigret, in her slip, busy taking off her stockings. This was so unlike her that he could find nothing to say, and...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
She wasn't an ordinary supplicant. She didn't lower her eyes. There was nothing humble about her bearing. She spoke frankly, looking straight ahead, as if to claim what was rightfully hers. 'If you don't agree to look at our case, my parents and I will be lost, and it will be the most hateful legal error.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
He needed to get out of his office, soak up the atmosphere and discover different worlds with each new investigation. He needed the cafes and bars where he so often ended up waiting, at the counter, drinking a beer or a calvados depending on the circumstances. He needed to do battle patiently in his office with a suspect who refused to talk and sometimes, after hours and hours, he'd obtain a dramatic confession. In Simenon's final novel featuring...
9) Maigret
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Maigret's peaceful retirement in the country is interrupted when his nephew comes to him for help after being implicated in a crime he didn't commit. Soon Maigret is back in the heart of Paris, and out of place in a once-familiar world"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. This is book sixteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he remains mute ...A madman? In Maigret's office, he is searched. His suit is new, his underwear is new, his shoes are new. All identifying labels have been removed. No identification papers. No...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
Inspector Maigret investigates a crime that hasn't yet been committed when a tense, fearful man comes to Maigret's home and announces that he intends to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret feels uneasy as he begins to investigate a crime that hasn't yet happened; what he uncovers in the bistros of Montmartre is a most peculiar menage a trois.
Author
Series
Inspector Maigret volume 11
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Visiting a prisoner to inform him that his reprieve has been denied and that his execution is scheduled for the next day, Inspector Maigret listens to the condemned man's story, undertaking a personal investigation that leads him to the Guinguette à Deux Sous, a bar by the Seine, and into the seamy underbelly of bourgeois Paris.--
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