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"A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason." --John Le Carr When a colleague is shot under mysterious circumstances, Inspector Maigret must work fast to uncover... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0156551276
ISBN13:9780156551274
Release Date:April 1991
Publisher:Mariner Books
Length:168 Pages
Weight:0.29 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 4.2" x 7.0"
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Fiction Literature & Fiction Mystery Mystery, Thriller & Suspense Police ProceduralsCustomer Reviews
3 ratings
Simenon at his Best
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
A married colleague leaves the apartment building of a beauitful young woman and is gunned down by a professional killer. Chief Inspector Maigret is called in to lead the investigation. Was Inspector Lognon cheating on his bed ridden wife or engaged in an undercover investigation? These are some of the questions that Jules Maigret and his team from the Quai des Orfevres must figure out. Inspector Maigret likes to tell his admirers that he has no technique. Each case is solved in its own way. Those of us who love the series get to see the many facets of Maigret's brilliance. The fun of "Maigret and the Appiration" is that we get to see the Inspector in his role as the brilliant interrogator. He is smart, incisive and unrelenting in this role. Over the years, Georges Simenon published more than 500 million copies of Jules Maigret stories. This volume was published in 1963 and Simenon had been writing Maigret novels for pver thirty years. "Maigret and the Apparition" is a good example of Simenon's writing when he was in his prime. Recommended.
Surveillance
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Lapointe advises Maigret at his apartment that Inspector Lognon, a plain-clothes detective, has been wounded. When Lognon is on the trail of something he makes a mystery of it. The concierge at the address on Avenue Junot says she heard a car and then shots. At the time Lognon seemed to be seeing an apparition. Lognon's wife is a hypochondriac. Madame Maigret takes her in to comfort her while Lognon is in a coma from the attemped murder. Maigret goes to see a Dutchman, a rich art collector, whose household has been under a sort of surveillance by an ancient inhabitant of the Avenue Junot. Msigret has a feeling that someone is in danger but he doesn't know the person's identity. He calls Scotland Yard because the Dutchman's wife was married formerly to a man named Muir. As the mystery is uncovered, the subject of the forgery of paintings emerges. It seems that the police officer became a shooting victim through a misunderstanding that he was a member of a rival gang. The economy of the writing, the terse style used, is one of the pleasures of reading the works of Georges Simenon.
Slendid evocation of painting's world
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
As usually, Simenon creates a splendid atmosphere with Maigret.It's a jubilation to read this book.
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