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Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1978.
Language
English
Description
The merest sliver of edgy Simenon-style psychological domestic brooding--as Dr. Edouard Malempin watches over his ill son (diphtheria) and remembers his own farm childhood when he was ill (impetigo) and witnessed his mother telling a lie about the never-explained disappearance of her Uncle Tesson. ""Did my parents decide to get rid of Tesaon?""--he was rich and had lent money to his ambitious niece and her husband. And little Edouard later found a...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1987.
Language
English
Description
Upon returning home, Charles Dupenn, a humble bookkeeper, locks himself in the attic and will not respond to his wife or his daughters, who remain downstairs speculating on what might be happening as they cast anxious glances at the ceiling.
4) The outlaw
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1986.
Language
English
Description
Simenon's acute sensitivity to losers permeates this novel, in spite of a somewhat elliptical and incompatible translation of the 1941 French edition. The outlaw is Stan, who has fled persecution in his native Poland and is now penniless in Paris with his waiflike girlfriend Nuschi. Leaving her one night, he's beaten up by a man he tries to rob, the usual result of his grandiose plans. In despair, Stan tries to sell information on ""the Polish gang,''...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1979.
Language
English
Description
A fledgling reporter for a Catholic newspaper in Belgium spends his evenings at a nightclub/bordello where he becomes obsessed with a girl, falls into debt, and gets involved with criminal characters who force him to steal identity papers for them.
8) Justice
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1985.
Language
English
Description
In a great courtroom drama, Maigret has to explain why he does not believe that Gaston Meurant was capable of slitting his aunt's throat for money and smothering a small child. But in saving him from the gallows, Maigret must expose some dark secrets about Meurant's life.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
c1969.
Language
English
Description
When a series of letters, written on expensive stationery, arrive at Maigret's desk stating that a murder will take place but that the writer is unsure as to who will die, who will do the killing, and when the killing will occur, Maigret's interest is piqued and he soon tracks the stationery down to the house of Emile Parendon, an eminent lawyer.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
"Maigret is called to the home of the Lachaume family where the eldest brother has been found shot dead. On Maigret's arrival the family close ranks and claim to have heard nothing at the time of the murder. Maigret must pick his way through the family's web of lies, secrets and deceit as well as handle Angelot, a troublesome new breed of magistrate who has waded into the case. The black sheep of the family, Veronique, finally gives Maigret the break...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1987.
Language
English
Description
M. Mostaguen, the wine dealer at Concarneau, is wounded by a gunshot when returning home drunk from the local Admiral Hotel and Maigret, who is organizing the mobile squad in Rennes, is called in by the Mayor to solve the crime. Maigret settles down at the hotel and discovers a set of curious characters who include Jean Servières, a retired newspaper man from Paris; Ernest Michoux, a doctor who has never practiced; Emma, the mysterious and complicated...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Description
Maigret is spurred into action by a visit from a burglar's wife, whom he had known well many years before. She informs him that a few nights previously her husband had been in the act of burgling a house when he discovered a dead body on the floor. Horrified, he had fled the scene, and then left the country - writing to his wife by letter.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
Maigret is called to the high-class Hotel Majestic to investigate a body. The wife of a wealthy American has been killed - but to Maigret's surprise she has a gun in her purse. He begins to follow up the handful of clues that could explain her secret life and her demise.
19) Maigret in Vichy
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
1984.
Language
English
Description
Paris has taken its toll and Maigret is sent to Vichy for the cure, but the Inspector finds it difficult to give his curiosity a rest. He compiles a mental dossier on his fellow guests, including a curious woman he and Madam Maigret note in particular -- the lady in lilac.
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