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Belgien, Liege, ca 1950
Indeholder kapitlerne "1. Adèle og hendes venner", "2. 'Den lille kasse'", "3. Manden med de brede skuldre", "4. Piberygerne", "5. Konfrontering", "6. Den forsvundne", "7. Den besynderlige rejse", "8. 'Hos Jeanne'", "9. Stikkeren", "10. To mænd i mørket", "11.
Jean Chabot på 16 år og Rene Delfosse på 18 år hænger ud på natklubben "Gai-Moulin". De bryder ind om natten for at skaffe lidt penge, men støder på et lig, der ligger på gulvet i baren og flygter i panik. Barpigen (kaldet en entraîneuse) Adèle forsøgte tidligere på aftenen at komme i lag med en mørkhåret udlænding og det er ham, der er offeret. For at skaffe penge hugger Rene nogle penge ved sin onkel uden at denne opdager det, men det er i store sedler. Politiet begynder at kigge efter Jean og Rene. De forsøger at skille sig af med pengene, men Jean bliver snuppet af en politibetjent og havner i en frygtelig klemme. Rene har overnattet ved Adèle, men smutter inden hun vågner og tager hendes penge med sig på vejen. Imens er liget blevet fundet i en store kurvekuffert og identificeret som en Ephraïm Graphopulos. I Adèles værelse finder politiets hans cigaretetui.
Aviserne skriver om Jean og Rene, men politiet leder også efter en anden, bredskuldret, mand, der var tilstede i natklubben om aftenen. Det viser sig at være Maigret i forklædning, der er fulgt efter Graphopulos fra Paris. Han afslører det hele som et stort spionkomplot, der både involverer natklubejeren Genaro, en tjener Victor og Adèle som har opbevaret ting for dem. Da Jean og Rene opdagede Graphopulos under deres indbrud, spillede han bare død.
Rene Delfosse er søn af en rig fabrikant, men for at søge spænding hugger han penge ved faderen og opfører sig i det hele taget skidt. Graphopulos er lidt af samme skuffe og er med i spionringen for spændingens skyld.
Rene (fulde navn Renè-Joseph-Arthur Delfosse) dør på en klinik for rige folk med mentale sygdomme, Sainte-Rosalie i Liège. Genero får fem års fængsel og Victor får tre. Adèle bliver frikendt.
Nogenlunde krimi, men plottet er lidt langt ude. Moralen er vist at rige folks dumme børn kommer galt afsted.
Indeholder kapitlerne "1. Adèle og hendes venner", "2. 'Den lille kasse'", "3. Manden med de brede skuldre", "4. Piberygerne", "5. Konfrontering", "6. Den forsvundne", "7. Den besynderlige rejse", "8. 'Hos Jeanne'", "9. Stikkeren", "10. To mænd i mørket", "11.
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Begynderen".Jean Chabot på 16 år og Rene Delfosse på 18 år hænger ud på natklubben "Gai-Moulin". De bryder ind om natten for at skaffe lidt penge, men støder på et lig, der ligger på gulvet i baren og flygter i panik. Barpigen (kaldet en entraîneuse) Adèle forsøgte tidligere på aftenen at komme i lag med en mørkhåret udlænding og det er ham, der er offeret. For at skaffe penge hugger Rene nogle penge ved sin onkel uden at denne opdager det, men det er i store sedler. Politiet begynder at kigge efter Jean og Rene. De forsøger at skille sig af med pengene, men Jean bliver snuppet af en politibetjent og havner i en frygtelig klemme. Rene har overnattet ved Adèle, men smutter inden hun vågner og tager hendes penge med sig på vejen. Imens er liget blevet fundet i en store kurvekuffert og identificeret som en Ephraïm Graphopulos. I Adèles værelse finder politiets hans cigaretetui.
Aviserne skriver om Jean og Rene, men politiet leder også efter en anden, bredskuldret, mand, der var tilstede i natklubben om aftenen. Det viser sig at være Maigret i forklædning, der er fulgt efter Graphopulos fra Paris. Han afslører det hele som et stort spionkomplot, der både involverer natklubejeren Genaro, en tjener Victor og Adèle som har opbevaret ting for dem. Da Jean og Rene opdagede Graphopulos under deres indbrud, spillede han bare død.
Rene Delfosse er søn af en rig fabrikant, men for at søge spænding hugger han penge ved faderen og opfører sig i det hele taget skidt. Graphopulos er lidt af samme skuffe og er med i spionringen for spændingens skyld.
Rene (fulde navn Renè-Joseph-Arthur Delfosse) dør på en klinik for rige folk med mentale sygdomme, Sainte-Rosalie i Liège. Genero får fem års fængsel og Victor får tre. Adèle bliver frikendt.
Nogenlunde krimi, men plottet er lidt langt ude. Moralen er vist at rige folks dumme børn kommer galt afsted.
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Publication
Forum, 1974.
Description
In the darkness, the main room is as vast as a cathedral. A great empty space. Some warmth is still seeps from the radiators. Delfosse strikes a match. They stop a moment to catch their breath, and work out how far they have still to go. And suddenly the match falls to the ground, as Delfosse gives a sharp cry and rushes back towards the washroom door. In the dark, he loses his way, returns and bumps into Chabot. Maigret observes from a distance as two boys are accused of killing a rich foreigner in Liege. Their loyalty, which binds them together through their adventures, is put to the test, and seemingly irrelevant social differences threaten their friendship and their freedom.
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LibraryThing member macgillicutty
This is the first of the Maigret books I have read. I like the style - kind of halfway between an [[Agatha Christie]] sleuth-style and something lke an early [[Dashiel Hammet]] 'all fell on top of me' noiry detective novel. The prose is good in the translation, which makes me want to try it in the
The plotting is solid, given the above juxtaposition of noir/sleuth stylings - enough setting and ancillary characters to sink your teeth into, along with a hard-boiled detective (albeit a French policeman undercover in Belgium) to bash his way through things in the end.
Nice.
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French - something that hasn't happened since I first read Dumas. The plotting is solid, given the above juxtaposition of noir/sleuth stylings - enough setting and ancillary characters to sink your teeth into, along with a hard-boiled detective (albeit a French policeman undercover in Belgium) to bash his way through things in the end.
Nice.
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LibraryThing member shawnd
This is the only Maigret detective mystery that takes place solely in Belgium. The Belgian author Simenon writes a compact, taut mystery that centers around the friendship of two older teens. One is from a firmly middle-class family, and becomes hooked on the 'good life' he enjoys with his friend
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whose father is rich. The rich friend has become use to many more 'baser' pleasures. In the process of trying to maintain their lifestyle, the friends get caught up in a killing. The Belgian inspector in Liege plays a nice foil to Maigret. Unfortunately, to resolve the murder a few unexpected assumptions or ideas need to be introduced that seem a stretch. The primary female character is well developed and believable and done so with surprisingly little effort on Simenon's part. Show Less
LibraryThing member pmfloyd1
Many of Simenon's Maigret books are really short stories expanded into book form. This story falls into this category, but with that said, the short story is a good one. From the beginning, the characters are interesting and the plot moves along with good pace. Overall, a very good, airplane read.
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Enjoy. Paul Floyd, Mpls, MN March 2010. Show Less
LibraryThing member JFGABCIK
The plot is okay until the end where the solution becomes a bit too contrived. Maigret's condesending attitude toward his fellow law officer is, I think, a bit out of character.
LibraryThing member jon1lambert
This crime novel takes place in Liege in Belgium. Simenon lures the reader in on page 1 and doesn't let go until the very end. It is a Maigret novel but Maigret does not knowingly appear until page 86. Super suspense, twists and turns.
LibraryThing member thorold
The tenth Maigret novel to be published, and it's already the Commissaire's second visit to Simenon's home-town of Liège. And his pretext for operating over the border in Belgium more than fifty years before the Schengen Agreement is even flimsier than it was last time. And some of his actions
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once he's there are distinctly odd. But it's an agreeably atmospheric little story, featuring a couple of would-be juvenile delinquents, a night-club dancer, an exotic corpse in a wicker basket, and a bunch of Belgian detectives who seem to be more interested in an opportunity to order briar pipes at cost-price than they are in the murder case they are supposed to be working on. Simenon takes the chance to dig a bit further into his favourite theme, the flimsiness of the boundaries between crime and respectability, and he manages to keep the reader interested despite the silliness of the plot. So why not? Show Less
LibraryThing member TomDonaghey
MAIGRET AT THE GAI-MOULIN (Dancer at the Gai-Moulin) (Maigret #10, 1940) by Georges Simenon, depicts two teens falling into trouble at the seedy nightclub Gai-Moulin. They plan to rob the till after closing time but that goes out the window when they stumble across a dead body in the club. But the
This is a classic mystery with almost no leads for the local police to follow, no suspects, not even a crime scene. And there is a large, mysterious stranger who might be the killer, but no one can find him.
In a twist on most detective stories, Maigret doesn't appear until well into the second third of the book. We know he is going to solve the case, but being in jail himself makes that more difficult than usual.
Simenon has created an enduring character and threaded him into a massive series of puzzles, any one of which is a worth while read, entertaining as all heck, and puzzling to the end. This is not the best but is still a great throwback read.
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next day the body is found stuffed in a lidded wicker basket at the zoo. The dead man was a rich playboy, there is no police search at the club, and the boys are shocked.This is a classic mystery with almost no leads for the local police to follow, no suspects, not even a crime scene. And there is a large, mysterious stranger who might be the killer, but no one can find him.
In a twist on most detective stories, Maigret doesn't appear until well into the second third of the book. We know he is going to solve the case, but being in jail himself makes that more difficult than usual.
Simenon has created an enduring character and threaded him into a massive series of puzzles, any one of which is a worth while read, entertaining as all heck, and puzzling to the end. This is not the best but is still a great throwback read.
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LibraryThing member BooksForDinner
Simenon returns Maigret to his the author's hometown for a second time in the series, this time for the whole novel!
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I thought the idea that Maigret isn't identified until more than halfway through the novel (even though anyone who has read any Maigret knew who he was much earlier) was
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I thought the idea that Maigret isn't identified until more than halfway through the novel (even though anyone who has read any Maigret knew who he was much earlier) was
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interesting. However, The idea that Maigret MOVED THE BODY after he discovered it just to potentially confuse the murderer? Seems awfully far-fetched to me, even for 1931. Yet, the scene when they all go to the club and wait to see who shows up, etc, is paced so well, real edge of your seat writing. Show Less
Subjects
Language
Original language
French
Original publication date
1931 (original French)
1940 (in English)
Physical description
152 p.; 18.4 cm
ISBN
8755303188 / 9788755303188
Local notes
Omslag: Jørgen Jørgensen
Omslagsfotografi: Jørgen Jørgensen
Omslaget viser nogle pengesedler og en åben pengekasse
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra fransk "La danseuse du Gai-Moulin" af Karen Nyrop Christensen
Tidligere udsendt som "Pigen fra Moulin Rouge"
Maigret, bind 67
Side 11: Hans skobånd er gået op.
Side 65: Nærmere bestemt det, man kalder en entraîneuse...
Omslagsfotografi: Jørgen Jørgensen
Omslaget viser nogle pengesedler og en åben pengekasse
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
Oversat fra fransk "La danseuse du Gai-Moulin" af Karen Nyrop Christensen
Tidligere udsendt som "Pigen fra Moulin Rouge"
Maigret, bind 67
Side 11: Hans skobånd er gået op.
Side 65: Nærmere bestemt det, man kalder en entraîneuse...
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152
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