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Simenon Georges Maigret chez le coroner
Comment est morte la jeune Bessy, dont le corps a ete retrouve, mutile, sur une voie de chemin de fer proche de Tucson dans l'Arizona ? Cette fois-ci, Maigret ne mene pas l'enquete. En mission d'etude aupres de ses collegues du FBI, il n'est que le temoin, souvent surpris, quelquefois reprobateur, des me-thodes americaines en matiere d'investigation criminelle. Cinq suspects - de jeunes soldats de la base militaire voisine, avec lesquels la jeune fille a passe sa derniere soiree - vont temoigner devant le coroner, en presence d'un public nombreux et passionne. La verite eclatera-t-elle avant que Maigret ne parte pour Los Angeles, prochaine etape de son voyage ? Observateur attentif de son epoque, Georges Simenon brosse ici un tableau captivant et toujours actuel des moeurs judiciaires americaines.
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Simenon Georges Maigret at the Coroner's
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.
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Simenon Georges Maigret at Picratt's
'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' 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. This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret and the Strangled Stripper and Maigret in Montmartre.
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Simenon Georges Maigret and the Headless Corpse
A man's dismembered body is found in a canal, and only Maigret can uncover the killer When a man's headless body is discovered in Paris's Saint-Martin Canal, Maigret is quick to answer the call. It is in this very neighborhood that he meets a strangely taciturn woman who runs a cafe. Her husband is away on a trip-or so she says. As is often the case, Maigret soon learns that there is more to the story than meets the eye. As shocking as it is incisive, Maigret and the Headless Corpse is a compelling mystery from Georges Simenon.
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Simenon Georges Maigret
Maigret shrugged his shoulders, buried his hands in his pockets and went off without answering. He had just spent one of the most wretched days in his life. For hours, in his corner he had felt old and feeble, without idea or incentive. But now a tiny flame flickered. 'You bet we'll see' he growled. Maigret's peaceful retirement in the countryside is disrupted when a relative unwittingly embroils himself in a crime he did not commit and the inspector returns to Police Headquarters in Paris once again.
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Simenon Georges Maigret
Avant d’ouvrir les yeux, Maigret fronca les sourcils, comme s’il se fut mefie de cette voix qui venait lui crier tout au fond de son sommeil : – Mon oncle !… Les paupieres toujours closes, il soupira, tatonna le drap de lit et comprit qu’il ne revait pas, qu’il se passait quelque chose puisque sa main n’avait pas rencontre, la ou il eut du etre, le corps chaud de Mme Maigret. Il ouvrit enfin les yeux. La nuit etait claire. Mme Maigret, debout pres de la fenetre a petits carreaux, ecartait le rideau cependant qu’en bas quelqu’un secouait la porte et que le bruit se repercutait dans toute la maison. – Mon oncle ! C’est moi…
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Simenon Georges Tout Maigret. Tome 4
Une edition anniversaire : 10 volumes de « Tout Maigret » avec des couvertures originales creees par Loustal. Le romancier americain Douglas Kennedy signe une preface inedite du tome 4. Maigret, ce sont 75 romans et 28 nouvelles, publies entre 1931 et 1972. Le tome 4 regroupe huit romans parus entre 1946 et 1950, dont deux se situent aux Etats-Unis. Douglas Kennedy, admirateur de Simenon, a ecrit une preface inedite pour ce volume. Maigret se fache Maigret a New York Les Vacances de Maigret Maigret et son mort La Premiere Enquete de Maigret Mon ami Maigret Maigret chez le coroner Maigret et la vieille dame Notes de Michel Carly
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Simenon Georges Maigret and the Informer
'You see, I mainly work at night. I've ended up getting to know everybody. They're used to me in Pigalle, I exchange a few words with this person or that person. I go into the bars and cabarets where they give me a quarter bottle of Vichy without waiting for me to order anything.' An anonymous tip-off regarding the death of a restaurant owner sends Maigret into the world of Parisian nightlife, a notorious criminal gang and a man known as 'the Flea'. This novel has been pubished in a previous translation as Maigret and the Flea.
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Simenon Georges Maigret and the Ghost
It wasn't a traditional painter's smock that Madam Jonker was wearing. It was more a Dominican's monk's habit, the fabric as thick and soft as a bathrobe...She was holding a palette in her left hand, a brush in her right, and her black eyes lighted on Maigret with curiosity. During an undercover case Inspector Lognon is shot in a room he was sharing with a beautiful woman who has since disappeared. Inspector Maigret retraces Lognon's secretive last few days and is drawn into the darker side of the art world. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret and the Apparition.
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Simenon Georges Maigret and the Loner
'People who've been here a long time have been talking about him. This morning, when I was having my coffee and croissants, it was all they were talking about. The old folks, even the middle-aged people, remember him and can't understand how he could have become a tramp. Apparently he was a good-looking man, tall and strong, who had a good profession and made a very decent living. And yet he vanished overnight without saying a word to anyone.' The death of a homeless man in a condemned building in Les Halles leads Maigret on the trail of the vagrant's mysterious past, and an event that happened years ago in the close-knit community of Montmartre.
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Simenon Georges Maigret and the Killer
'Leaning on the banisters, Madame Maigret watched her husband going heavily downstairs . . . what the newspapers didn't know was how much energy he put into trying to understand, how much he concentrated during certain investigations. It was as if he identified with the people he was hunting and suffered the same torments as they did.' A young man is found dead, clutching his tape recorder, just streets away from Maigret's home, leading the inspector on a disturbing trail into the mind of a killer.
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Simenon Georges Maigret and the Minister
'Once alone in his office, he went over and opened the window as if being in charge of this case made him gasp for a breath of fresh air... It made him feel almost fond of the petty thieves, maniacs, swindlers and offenders of all kinds that he usually had to deal with.' Maigret has no taste for politics, or politicians, but when he is summoned to a clandestine meeting by a desperate government minister one evening, he finds himself drawn into an unsavoury world of corruption, scandal and cover ups.
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Simenon Georges Maigret and the Tramp
When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being badly beaten, Maigret must delve into the man's personal circumstances to figure out just who wanted to kill him. This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret and the Dosser and Maigret and the Bum.
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Simenon Georges Maigret s'amuse
Le petit vieux a barbichette sortait a nouveau de l’ombre de l’entrepot, a reculons, regardait a gauche et a droite, avec un geste des deux mains comme pour attirer vers lui le lourd camion dont il dirigeait la man?uvre. Ses mains disaient : – Un peu a droite… La… Tout droit… Doucement…A gauche… maintenant… Braquez… Et le camion, en marche arriere aussi, traversait maladroitement le trottoir, s’engageait dans la rue ou le petit vieux, maintenant, faisait signe aux voitures de s’arreter un instant.
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Simenon Georges Maigret Travels
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. 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. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret and the Millionaires.
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Simenon Georges Maigret Hesitates
'Maigret looked at him in some confusion, wondering if he waas dealing with a skilful actor or, on the contrary, with a sickly little man who found consolation in a subtle sense of humour.' A series of anonymous letters lead Maigret into the wealthy household of an eminent laywer and a curious game of cat and mouse with Paris high society.
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