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Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
[1975]
Physical Desc
180 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1993
Physical Desc
214 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
While committing what he intends to be his last burglary, "Sad Freddie" discovers something completely out of his line: the body of a dead woman, her chest covered in blood, holding a telephone in her hand. Inspector Maigret is called in to solve the crime, and after an exhaustive search, a psychological duel, a marathon interrogation, and innumerable glasses of Pernod, wine, cold beer, and brandy--a sure sign that this is no easy case--the famous...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1980
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
173 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1983, c1961
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
147 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A woman and her child have been brutally murdered in their flat: the woman's throat slit, and the child smothered by silk cushions. Standing accused is the victim's nephew, a quiet picture-framer from the outskirts of Paris. The violence of the crime stands in stark contrast to his gentle nature, but Meurant was glimpsed fleeing from the scene, and a suit is found bearing traces of human blood. Yet Maigret can't reconcile the violent portrait the...
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