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Chargement... Maigret at the Crossroads [Omnibus]par Georges Simenon
   Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre.  tripleblessings | Oct 6, 2006 |  aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Appartient à la sérieMaigret (Omnibus 3, 7, 12)
"Maigret at the Crossroads" - Maigret has been interrogating Carl Andersen for seventeen hours without a confession. He’s either innocent or a very good liar. So why was the body of a diamond merchant found at his isolated mansion? Why is his sister always shut away in her room? And why does everyone at Three Widows Crossroads have something to hide? "Maigret Stonewalled" - The circumstances of Monsieur Gallet's death all seem fake: the name the deceased was travelling under and his presumed profession, and more worryingly, his family's grief. Their haughtiness seems to hide ambiguous feelings about the hapless man. In this haunting story, Maigret discovers the appalling truth and the real crime hidden behind the surface of lies. "Maigret Mystified" - Summoned to the dimly-lit Place des Vosges one night, where he sees shadowy figures at apartment windows, Maigret uncovers a tragic story of desperate lives, unhappy families, addiction and a terrible, fatal greed. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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- Maigret at the Crossroads: A Jewish diamond-merchant is found dead. There is no shortage of suspects, and then the victim's widow is shot dead at Maigret's feet. Original title "Le nuit du Carrefour", 1931, translated by Robert Baldick for Penguin books 1963.
- Maigret Stonewalled: Deception and falseness are everywhere as Maigret investigates the strange death of a commercial traveller for whom nothing had ever gone right - not even death.
Original title "Monsieur Gallet decede" 1931, translated by Margaret Marshall for Penguin Books, 1963.
- Maigret Mystified: When a man is murdered in his office old jealousies, stifled hatreds and concealed relationships soon come to light.
Original title "L'Ombre chinoise" 1932, also published in Britain as "The Shadow in the Courtyard", this translation by Jean Stewart for Penguin Books, 1964.
Pretty good, but I don't find Maigret very likeable. The crimes themselves are passionate, but the plots, dialogue and mystery as a whole are rather dry and formal. Not my favourite series. (