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Maigret at the Coroner's
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Maigret and the Tall Woman
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 27
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Maigret's First Case
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5 out of 5 stars
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 18
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Maigret and the Tall Woman
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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A visit from the tall, thin woman he arrested many years ago - now married to a hapless burglar - leads Maigret on a tortuous investigation in which he struggles with a formidable suspect. This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret and the Burglar's Wife.'
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Maigret in New York
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Maigret's Dead Man
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That shoeless foot looked incongruous lying on the pavement next to another foot encased in a shoe made of black kid leather. It was naked, private.... It was Maigret who retrieved the other shoe, which lay by the kerb six or seven metres away. A series of strange phone calls leads Inspector Maigret through the Paris streets towards a man out of his depth amid a network of merciless criminals.
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Maigret Takes a Room
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When one of his best inspectors is shot, Maigret decides to book himself into Mademoiselle Clément's well-kept Paris boardinghouse 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....'
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Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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In book 39 of the new Penguin Maigret, 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. This story has been published in a previous translation as Inspector Maigret and the Killers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Another
- By BDHumbert on 11-28-17
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Maigret's Memoirs
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- By: Georges Simenon
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4 out of 5 stars 13
Maigret sets the record straight and tells the story of his own life, giving a rare glimpse into the mind of the great inspector - and the writer who would immortalise him. 'I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even more self-confidence, if possible, than before, but nevertheless with a touch of anxiety in his eyes.... He trumpeted these last words as if they were a sensational discovery. Making it seem truer than life, that's the crux of it. Well, I've made you truer than life.'
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Félicie
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story4 out of 5 stars 28
Imperious, clever, mysterious: Maigret meets his match in the alluring form of Félicie in book 25 of the new Penguin Maigret series. In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert nose and especially the hat, that giddy crimson bonnet perched on the top of her head with a bronze-green feather shaped like a blade stuck in it.... Félicie had given him more trouble than all the 'hard' men who had been put behind bars.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Favorite
- By BDHumbert on 11-29-17
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Maigret's Holiday
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At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into his pocket, his left breast pocket? It was an ordinary sheet of glazed squared paper, probably torn out of an exercise book. The words were written in pencil, in a regular handwriting that looked to him like a woman's. For pity's sake, ask to see the patient in room 15. When Inspector Maigret's wife falls ill on their seaside holiday, a visit to the hospital leads him on an unexpected quest to find justice for a young girl.
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5 out of 5 stars
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an excellent maigret
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Maigret's Revolver
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 17
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 15
When Maigret's .45 revolver is stolen from his home, he becomes embroiled in a murder in which the gun may have played a deadly role. 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....
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Maigret at Picratt's
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- By: Georges Simenon
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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A young cabaret dancer in a black silk dress leads Maigret into a seamy world of nightclubs, drug addiction and exploitation on the streets of Montmartre. '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.'
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3 out of 5 stars
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Hasn't Aged Well
- By Mark Stradling on 03-08-18
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Maigret Travels
- Inspector Maigret, Book 51
- By: Georges Simenon
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 3 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 15
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 14
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 14
The attempted suicide of a countess and the death of a billionaire in the same luxury Paris hotel send Maigret to the Riviera and then to Switzerland, as he searches for the truth amid the glittering world of the super rich. Eyes half closed, head tilted against the back of his seat, he seemed not to be thinking, as the plane flew over a thick carpet of bright clouds. In reality, he was making an effort to bring names and shadowy figures to life, names and figures that even this morning had been as unknown to him as the inhabitants of another planet.
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Inspector Cadaver
- Inspector Maigret, Book 24
- By: Georges Simenon, William Hobson - translator
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 4 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 25
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 24
Maigret's old colleague becomes an unexpected rival in book 24 of the new Penguin Maigret series. In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare after they had passed him, he was the intruder, the undesirable. No, worse, he was fundamentally untrustworthy, some stranger who had just turned up from who knew where to do who knew what.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Pure Maigret at Siminon's best
- By Anniebligh on 12-15-16
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Signed, Picpus
- Inspector Maigret, Book 23
- By: Georges Simenon, David Coward (translator)
- Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
- Length: 3 hrs and 52 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Maigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice. Mechanically, he had put his pince-nez down on the blotter and looked at it there with his large, short-sighted eyes. It is at that moment that the strange thing happens. One of the lenses, acting as a mirror, reflected the criss-cross, hatched ink marks which had dried on the blotter, and he could just make out a couple of words.
Publisher's Summary
Maigret grapples with the American justice system on a trip to Arizona in this new translation, novel 32 of the new Penguin Maigret series.
The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was incapable of figuring out anything.... Well, Maigret happened to believe that men and their passions are the same everywhere.
Maigret is touring the United States to observe American policing methods when a visit to a coroner's inquest in Arizona draws him into the tragic story of a young woman and five airmen in the desert.
Critic Reviews
"One of the greatest writers of the 20th century.... Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." (Guardian)
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Amazon Customer
- 03-10-17
Maigret at the coroners
Something a little different to the normal magrete storyline well worth the reading magret in a foreign land