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About this book
In his suit and bowler hat Superintendent Maigret feels out of place among the palm trees, the bright colors, the half-clad, bronzed vacationers on the Côte d'Azur. And the murder case that has called him here seems, somehow, not serious. Who could have wanted to stab to death William Brown, a middle-aged Australian who lived in squalor with an overblown, overperfumed mistress and her officious mother and whose only vice, apparently, was going out on a binge once a month?
Maigret would rather lounge in the sun and sip Pernods than question cab drivers, search the bars of Cannes for that rare slot machine, or sit in a sordid little dive with a woman called Fat Jaja.
A deft, psychologically fascinating story of men who kick over the traces — and of men who don't. And of how human love and tenderness can theme in the ugliest, most degenerate soil.
Maigret collection · 71 books
In publication order- Maigret Goes Home 1932
- Maigret on the Riviera 1932 This book
- The Flemish House 1932
- The Madman of Bergerac 1932
Subjects
- continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)
- detective and mystery stories, french
- fiction
- fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural
- france, fiction
- french detective and mystery stories
- jules maigret (fictitious character)
- maigret, jules (fictitious character), fiction
- mystery fiction
- paris (france), fiction
- police
- romance literature
- translations into russian
- филологические науки. художественная литература -- франция -- французская литература -- 20 в. (1917-