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Inspector Lognon-an embittered but dedicated detective-is shot. To everyone's amazament, it emerges that Lognon had spent the last ten nights in the room of a beautiful young woman-who has disappered. In retreading Lognon's secretive last days, Maigret's investigations lead him into both the murky world of art-collecting and forgery, and the obsessive mind of a detective.
'A truly wonderful writer ... marvellously readable - lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with that world he creates of run-down hotels, cold, dark barges, quayside canal-taverns, lurking prostitutes, pot-bellied burghers, taciturn youths, slippery barmen' Muriel Spark, Sunday Times
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Georges Simenon was born at Liege in Belgium in 1903. He published over 160 books and his work has been admired by almost all the leading French and English critics. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages and more than 40 have been filmed.
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On the night in question, it was past one o'clock when the light went out in Maigret's office. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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On the night in question, it was past one o'clock when the light went out in Maigret's office. Read the first page Browse Sample Pages
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
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This is a well-written who-done-it, although the ending is predictable. the writing is taut and the dialogue superb, particularly in the exchange between Maigret and the Jonkers.
This is the second high-quality Simenon book I have read recently (see my review of Monsieur Monde Vanishes)) and it is difficult to understand why he is not more highly rated. I suspect that, as with Wells and Wallace, the cogniscenti snobbishly dismiss somebody who can write over 400 books- preferring the Harper Lee template?
This is the second high-quality Simenon book I have read recently (see my review of Monsieur Monde Vanishes)) and it is difficult to understand why he is not more highly rated. I suspect that, as with Wells and Wallace, the cogniscenti snobbishly dismiss somebody who can write over 400 books- preferring the Harper Lee template?
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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This is a very enjoyable mystery. The outcome didn't exactly take my breath away, but there's enough tension in the story to make this well worth reading. The scene in which Maigret interrogates a wealthy art collector and his glamorous wife is brilliantly taut - a real verbal duel between the stubborn yet subtle Maigret and the wily couple, who are hiding dark secrets...
2 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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An interesting twist on Maigret's usual cases. He finds himself in an uknown world.
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