Maigret is afraid
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Maigret is afraid
Three murders in one week is too many for a nasty little town. It's a good thing Maigret's passing through...
On his way back from the Bordeaux Congress, Maigret took a detour through Fontenay-le-Comte just to see a friend from his youth. However, you can't step into the same water twice, especially in the weeping nest, where the downpour has opened the floodgates of the commissioner's sullenness to such an extent that no greater kakabus could be found in the Vendée region at the moment. I don't care. The sycophantic petty bourgeoisie are obviously envious of the extra nickel, the Socani are on the rise, not to mention the arrogance of the honorarium. And on top of that, the cruel murder - three times over. First the brother-in-law of a local nobleman, then a lonely widow and after her a harmless drunkard, all beaten with a water pipe. There's no logic to it. The gendarmerie starts a raid when it's flying, but an experienced criminalist knows that in the tangle of poor clues, a motive must first be established. And quickly, before the mob lynches an innocent man. Even the hardened Parisian Maigret would be afraid, but what thread to unravel this series of madness?
They wrote about the book:
Resentment rages with the vigour of vitriol in a cramped space. The solution emerges from the snappy dialogue and great character reading that Simenon's honest journalism taught him.
- Sud Ouest (Bordeaux)
A bravura portrait of French smallness. The interviews show it more in hints, while the characters are groping and know it well about themselves. Misanthrope Maigret doesn't make it easy for them, but again he intervenes in time.
- SME
By the Seine or outside, he'll have a drink first. Come rain or shine, it soon gets bad for the criminals!
- from responses on databazeknih.cz
Georges Simenon
(1903-1989) Thanks to the character of Jules Maigret in the Paris police station on the Embankment of the Goldsmiths, he became one of the most famous francophone writers. He began writing for a living at the age of sixteen, when he started as a newspaper elite in his native Belgian town of Liege, and after moving to Paris in 1923, he devoted the next ten years to the creation of notebook novels. He published the first detective story in a seventy-five-volume series of cases of a grumpy man with a bow and a hard-on in 1930, and remained in his flamboyant company as an author until 1972. The vast majority of Maigret's cases were adapted into films, including. starring Jean Gabin, Bruno Cremer and, most recently, Rowan Atkinson. An exceptionally prolific writer whose bibliography numbers 400 titles and 800 million copies sold in 50 languages, he also contributed to excellent psychological novels with a criminal plot, such as. Widow, Teddy bear, A man from London, The blue room, Unknown in the House or Star of the North, also filmed.
