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Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman named Lulu, who has a history of brushes with the law and once lived on the streets of the 18th arrondissement, is found murdered in Paris. Maigret is called to the scene and soon learns that her boyfriend, a musician, has gone into hiding upon reading the news of her death. And when the Inspector learns that the young victim was pregnant, he begins to suspect the case might be more sinister than he imagined." --
Author
Series
Inspector Maigret volume 62
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
During an undercover case, Inspector Maigret's colleague Lognon is shot and rushed to surgery. The attack took place in a room he was sharing, unbeknownst to his friends and family, with a beautiful woman who has since disappeared. No one knows why he was there, but rumors are swirling that he was working on a case-something big. With all eyes on him, Inspector Maigret retraces Lognon's secretive last few days and is drawn into the dark side of the...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
He opened the door for her and watched her walk away down the huge corridor, then hesitate at the top of the stairs. Heads turned as she passed. You sensed she came from a different world, the world of the night, and there was something almost indecent about her in the harsh light of a winter's day' A young cabaret dancer in a black silk dress leads Inspector Maigret into a seamy world of nightclubs, drug addiction and exploitation on the streets...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The body of a well-known Parisian restaurateur turns up on Avenue Junot in Montmartre, seemingly having been killed elsewhere. Inspector Maigret is on the case, and soon discovers that the murder may be gang-related after a colleague working in the red-light district receives a tip from an anonymous informer."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Inspector Maigret volume 45
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Maigret and his fellow inspector Lognon find themselves trying to out-manoeuver each other when they investigate the case of a mysterious young woman whose new life in Paris is tragically cut short. Maigret wouldn't have admitted that what intrigued him most was the victim's face. All he had seen of it so far was one profile. Was it the bruises that gave her that sullen air? She looked like a bad-tempered little girl. Her combed-back brown hair was...
47) Donadieu's will
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
The body of Oscar Donadieu, a heroic figure in the small town of La Rochelle, is found floating in the harbor that is home port to the ships that contribute to the vast Donadieu family fortunes. As his family tries to function without their patriarch, extraordinary entanglements emerge. Into this web of festering relationships comes Phillipe Dargens, an ambitious young man who hopes to marry into the family. Suspicions of murder abound, as assorted...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
CLASSIC CRIME. When a man's headless body is pulled from the Canal Saint Martin, Maigret and his colleagues are puzzled. In a chance encounter at a local cafe Maigret uncovers the truth behind this disturbing murder in an intriguing story of an estranged family, adulterous affairs and a secret inheritance. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Maigret is the victim of a burglary in which the .45 revolver he had received as a gift from the FBI is stolen. That evening Maigret attends a dinner where François Lagrange, an acquaintance of Maigret's friend, is expected but fails to appear due to ill health. Following his instincts, Maigret decides to investigate Lagrange's absence and uncovers a body stowed in a trunk, as well as Lagrange, who refuses to talk and seems to have lost his mind....
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
The mood of the town was still jittery. It was all very well for people to go about their day-to-day activities as usual, there was a certain anxiety in people's eyes and they seemed to be walking faster, as if they were afraid the murderer would suddenly appear. Maigret would have sworn the housewives didn't normally stand around on the doorsteps talking in hushed tones.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
When one of his best inspectors is shot, Maigret decides to book himself into Mademoiselle Clement's well-kept Paris boarding house nearby in order to find the culprit. 'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an irony which was neither less cheerful nor less childish, but which troubled him ... He wondered now if his exultation wasn't down to the fact that she was playing a part, not just...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A kind but seemingly paranoid old lady turns to Inspector Maigret for help. Against the judgement of his subordinates, he decides to pay a visit to her Parisian apartment to investigate, but is he already too late?"--Publisher website.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a school teacher from a small coastal town near La Rochelle asks Maigret to help prove he is innocent of murder, the Inspector returns with him to his insular community and finds the residents closing ranks to conceal the truth.'What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he'd had the same feeling of helplessness or, rather, futility. He would find himself abruptly plunged into the lives of people he had never...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a man is found stabbed to death in an alley off Boulevard Saint-Martin, his identity card shows a workplace that had gone out of business three years earlier. As far as his wife knew, he still worked there, and she insists that the shoes and a tie he was wearing when he was killed "couldn't be his." It soon becomes evident that although he had a source of income, he spent most of his time sitting on a bench in the neighborhood, often with the...
Author
Series
Inspector Maigret volume 46
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Maigret finds himself drawn into an unsavoury world of political corruption, scandal and cover ups when he is summoned to a clandestine meeting by a desperate government minister one evening. 'Once alone in his office, he went over and opened the window as if being in charge of this case made him gasp for a breath of fresh air... It made him feel almost fond of the petty thieves, maniacs, swindlers and offenders of all kinds that he usually had to...
59) Maigret's anger
Author
Series
Inspector Maigret volume 61
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
During a quiet spell in June, Maigret is called to investigate the disappearance of a reputable businessman. When a body is discovered near the famous Pore Lachaise cemetery, Maigret struggles to find any clues to the perpetrator and loses his temper when his own reputation is threatened by the case.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
On his travels through the U.S., Maigret stops in Tucson, Arizona at the guidance of his FBI friend Harry Cole, who leaves him one day to observe a coroner's inquest. The body being examined is that of Bessie Mitchell, a young girl who died under suspicious circumstances-she spent a night drinking and driving with five young Air Force men and was found the next morning on the tracks, run over by a train. Maigret quickly becomes engrossed in the hearing...
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