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"He was wearing a dark suit, a beige raincoat and on his feet, which were twisted at an odd angle, he wore yellow-brown shoes, which seemed out of keeping with a day as colourless as this. Apart from his shoes he looked so ordinary that he would have passed completely unnoticed on the street or on one of the numerous cafU terraces on the boulevard. When Maigret discovers an unexpectedly flamboyant detail about an otherwise unremarkable man, the inspector...
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Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler, Felix Nahour, who has been found shot dead by his chambermaid. Maigret is shocked to recognise a photo of the man's wife who becomes the main suspect. All signs point to her guilt but Maigret suspects there might be more to this complicated affair.
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English
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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...
5) The move
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
[1968]
Edition
[1st American ed.].
Physical Desc
148 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Emile Jovis leaves the old apartment in the rue des Francs-Bourgeois where he has lived for years, to settle, with his family, in Clairevie, a modern housing estate in the suburbs. From this new installation, Jovis promises a lot of happiness. Soon, it must be agreed that Clairevie, where everyone isolates himself in anonymity, hardly replaces his old district of Paris. But Jovis made, thanks to a poorly soundproofed partition, a singular discovery....
Author
Series
Inspector Maigret volume 13
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[©1989]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
139 pages ; 22 cm
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English
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Language
English
Description
In this trio of novels, Inspector Jules Maigret is faced with three very different deaths and, correspondingly, three very different milieus, each depicted with Simenon's characteristic sureness of touch. In "Maigret's Failure," the vulgarly rich owner of a chain of butcher shops, "The King of the Meat Trade, " is murdered for motives both understandable and obvious. In "Maigret in Society," on the other hand, the inspector confronts a cast of characters...
8) The widower
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1982, ©1959
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
149 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
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English
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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 coroners 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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Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
©1991
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
166 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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Two teenaged boys, bent on stealing money from the cash register after hours at the Gai-Moulin--a nightclub in Belgium--stumble upon a body, a discovery that has Inspector Maigret of Paris sorting through suspects.
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Series
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English
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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.
Author
Series
Inspector Maigret volume 60
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1973]
Edition
[1st ed.].
Physical Desc
149 pages 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The famed inspector must protect the life of a vagrant who refuses to obey society's rules.
15) Maigret
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
139 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
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"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.
16) Donadieu's will
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
©1991
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 24 cm
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...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Maigret goes up against a group of American gangsters and finds he just might have met his match. The thirty-ninth book in the new Penguin Maigret series. In Maigret's latest adventure, the Inspector learns that his hapless colleague Lognon is being menaced by some notorious American mobsters, and he makes it his mission to bring them to justice, despite threatening warnings that he is out of his depth. As the stakes get higher, Maigret must rely...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 20 cm.
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
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 20 cm.
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
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1988?], ©1940
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
137 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The balmy, relaxing Cote d'Azur is not exactly conducive to investigating a murder, and Inspector Jules Maigret has trouble taking the murder of an inoffensive, middle-aged Australian seriously. A deft, psychologically fascinating story about men who kick over the traces--and of men who do not.
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