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Dec 11, 2016 · Maigret occasionally stokes his potbelly stove while he listens and is relieved of the conversation when he receives a telephone call. A man is patched through who doesn’t tell Maigret his name, saying it is not significant. The man claims that he is being followed and will soon be killed.
Maigret's Dead Man (French: Maigret et son mort), also translated as Maigret and His Dead Man and Maigret’s Special Murder, is a 1948 detective novel by the Belgian novelist Georges Simenon featuring the fictional character Jules Maigret. It was Simenon's 29th Maigret novel.
Apr 10, 2017 · A man in a panic had telephoned Maigret at the office saying that his wife, Nina, knew Maigret…. But he rings off, later to be found murdered. But Maigret knows no woman named Nina. Nor does he recognise the dead man when he is found. Who is Nina? And who is the victim?
Sep 12, 2022 · What looks at first like a cold-blooded murder is revealed to be a hot-blooded and excusable act of protective passion on the part of a middle-aged lover, and the pathos comes from the woman’s ...
Sep 19, 2024 · Take La Tête d’un homme (A Man’s Head), among the earlier crop of Simenon’s Maigret novels. Joseph Huertin, a slow-witted delivery boy, faces the gallows for the twin murders of the wealthy American Mme. Henderson and her maid.
Unlike most fictional detectives, Maigret does not use the process of reasoning while engaged in an investigation, but instead relies on his intuition and unique facilities of perception to study all those involved and eventually identify the killer.
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Aug 15, 2019 · The novels are at their very best when they describe eating and drinking; the food and drink provide a positive counterpoint to the grisliness of murder, the best human instincts against the worst.
