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"Georges Simenon: Forbrydelse under diskretion" handler om Maigret og en mordsag med en rig tante Joséphine Croizier og en fattig nevø Philippe Deligeard.
"J. D. Beresford: Den kunstige skønhedsplet" handler om en fupmager der bliver snydt.
"E. C. Bentley: Det mesterlige slag" handler om at blive slået ihjel med et slag.
"Stacy Aumonier: Det fuldendte mord" handler om at knust glas giver mavepine.
"Loel Yeo: Ligsyn" handler om et testamente hvor alt går til kræftforskning.
"Dorothy L. Sayers: Mistanke" handler om en mand, der får mistanke til at kokkepigen er en giftmorderske på flugt. Hans morgenkaffe smager mærkeligt og han får en bekendt til at checke den. Kaffen er fyldt med arsenik, men da han kommer hjem er dagens nyhed i avisen at giftmordersken er pågrebet et helt andet sted, så for første gang får han mistanke til at konen nok ikke vil ham noget godt.
"Dashiell Hammett: Plyndringen af Couffingal" handler om eksilrussisk øangreb.
"Freeman Willis Crofts: Jernbaneoverskæringen" handler om en pengeafpressers endeligt.
"Agatha Christie: Villa Filomele" handler om en hustrumorder der får sin sag for.
"Edgar Jepson, Robert Eustace: Tebladet" handler om et ejendommeligt mordvåben eller er det mon selvmord.
"Sir Hugh Walpole: Sølvmasken" handler om Miss Sonia Herries der selv inviterer en tyv indenfor.
Interessante, men pudsigt bedagede historier
Loel Yeo er et pseudonym for Leonora, som var P. G. Wodehouse's steddatter (han giftede sig med Leonoras mor Ethel Wayman).
P. G. Wodehouse kaldte Leonora for Snorky. Hun døde i 1944 af komplikationer efter en mindre operation. P. G. var på det tidspunkt interneret af tyskerne.
J. D. Beresford = John Davys Beresford
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The third book in the new Penguin Maigret series- Georges Simenon's haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, in a compelling new translation by Linda Coverdale. A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that had the same leitmotif of hanging. On the edge of a forest- a man hanging from every branch. A church steeple- beneath the weathercock, a human body dangling from each arm of the cross. . . Below another sketch were written four lines from Fran ois Villon's Ballade of the Hanged Men. On a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly causes a man's suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret and the Hundred Gibbetsand The Crime of Inspector Maigret. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent… (more)
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It all boils down to the usual Simenon idea of the painfully thin line between bourgeois respectability and the disordered world of crime, and this isn't his most elegant statement of it, but it is an early hint of the sort of writing he could be capable of when he went a bit beyond the limits of the genre. It isn't quite the Simenon of L’homme qui regardait passer les trains yet, but it's a step on the way.
Thus, this particular “adventure” begins with Maigret wondering why one man is acting in such a strange manner and ends with him learning the darkest secrets that have been eating away at group of friends over almost a decade. Maigret’s choice of how to deal with this knowledge tells the reader much about Maigret himself and indeed much about the nature of French and Belgian culture in the decades leading up to the Second World War.
Hanged Man was the fourth of the series. Unlike most of the subsequent books, it’s less a police procedural as technically he doesn’t even has a case, and more of a psychological novel resembling his non-Maigret stories. Here, Maigret has been traveling and watching a man senses something peculiar in his behavior. He follows the man who then commits suicide. This leads Maigret to pursue assorted leads in order to understand the motivation behind the man’s suicide. I won’t give away more except to say the book is an interesting examination of guilt.
Maigret is such an interesting character. He can adopt a multitude of persona from the bumbling ignoramus to the brilliant and insightful detective while being compassionate or cruel as the situation demands.
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Omslag: Asger Jerrild
Omslaget viser en hånd, der holder en pistol
Thaning og Appel, Gyserklubben
Indskannet omslag - N650U - 150 dpi
11 træffere
Oversat fra fransk "Georges Simenon: La vieille dame de Bayeux" af Jørgen Rothenborg
Oversat fra engelsk "J. D. Beresford: The Artificial Mole" af Jørgen Rothenborg
Oversat fra engelsk "E. C. Bentley: The Sweet Spot" af Jørgen Rothenborg
Oversat fra engelsk "Stacy Aumonier: The Perfect Murder" af Jørgen Rothenborg
Oversat fra engelsk "Loel Yeo: Inquest" af Jørgen Rothenborg
Oversat fra engelsk "Dorothy L. Sayers: Suspicion" af Jørgen Rothenborg
Oversat fra engelsk "Dashiell Hammett: The Gutting of Couffignal" af Jørgen Rothenborg
Oversat fra engelsk "Freeman Willis Crofts: The Railway Crossing" af Jørgen Rothenborg
Oversat fra engelsk "Agatha Christie: Philomel Cottage" af Jørgen Rothenborg
Oversat fra engelsk "Edgar Jepson, Robert EustaceThe Tea-Leaf" af Jørgen Rothenborg
Oversat fra engelsk "Sir Hugh Walpole: The Silver Mask" af Jørgen Rothenborg
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