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On his travels through the U.S., Maigret stops in Tucson, Arizona at the guidance of his FBI friend Harry Cole, who leaves him one day to observe a coroners inquest. The body being examined is that of Bessie Mitchell, a young girl who died under suspicious circumstances-- she spent a night drinking and driving with five young Air Force men and was found the next morning on the tracks, run over by a train. Maigret quickly becomes engrossed in the hearing...
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"He was wearing a dark suit, a beige raincoat and on his feet, which were twisted at an odd angle, he wore yellow-brown shoes, which seemed out of keeping with a day as colourless as this. Apart from his shoes he looked so ordinary that he would have passed completely unnoticed on the street or on one of the numerous cafU terraces on the boulevard. When Maigret discovers an unexpectedly flamboyant detail about an otherwise unremarkable man, the inspector...
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Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler, Felix Nahour, who has been found shot dead by his chambermaid. Maigret is shocked to recognise a photo of the man's wife who becomes the main suspect. All signs point to her guilt but Maigret suspects there might be more to this complicated affair.
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1988?], ©1940
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
137 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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The balmy, relaxing Cote d'Azur is not exactly conducive to investigating a murder, and Inspector Jules Maigret has trouble taking the murder of an inoffensive, middle-aged Australian seriously. A deft, psychologically fascinating story about men who kick over the traces--and of men who do not.
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In this make-believe memoir, Maigret recounts a meeting with the author himself. The account starts with the arrival of Georges Sim, as he is called here, at the Paris Police Judiciaire to soak up atmosphere for his crime novels by dogging the footsteps of Inspector Maigret. The detective is irritated by the audacious young writer who names a character after him and argues that he oversimplifies, in his fiction, the intricate duties of the police...
15) Maigret afraid
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1983, c1953
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
170 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
17) Maigret in exile
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Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1979, c1978
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
162 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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