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Penguin Books (2016), 208 pages
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A local scandal intrudes on Maigret's seaside holiday in book twenty-eight of the new Penguin Maigret series. At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into his pocket, his left breast pocket? It was an ordinary sheet of glazed squared paper, probably torn out of an exercise book. The words were written in pencil, in a regular handwriting that looked to him like a woman's. For pity's sake, ask to see the patient in room 15. When Inspector Maigret's wife falls ill on their seaside holiday, a visit to the hospital leads him on an unexpected quest to find justice for a young girl.
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LibraryThing member BooksForDinner
Another excellent Maigret!
LibraryThing member jon1lambert
I read this, or most of it, while waiting to get my hair cut. Maigret always seems to work during his holidays. He is in Sable d’Olonnes in this one and by about page 85 there are already three dead bodies. His wife has been taken ill too and is in a strange hospital run by nuns. Don’t go on
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holiday with Maigret is my advice or to the same resort. Gripping. How does he function with such an intake of alcohol? Show Less
LibraryThing member stillatim
One of the better ones so far, and a joy to see more of Mme Maigret.
LibraryThing member thorold
The Maigrets are back in the Vendée, on holiday in Les Sables-d'Olonne (close to where Simenon lived during the war). But Mme Maigret, taken ill after eating mussels, is in the local hospital, and the Commissaire is at something of a loose end. Fortunately, it's not long before there's a sudden
So, as so often, Maigret is investigating unofficially in a case where he has no jurisdiction, and he's free to follow his own inclinations without bothering about police procedure. And it soon turns out that this is one of those cases where there is a single suspect who is obviously guilty of something, and the mystery is all about precisely what he has done and why, and whether it can be proved.
There's some nice Atlantic coast atmosphere, some interesting digging into social structures in the town and its hotels, and a brief cameo appearance by the young Simenon himself, as a 19-year-old cub reporter on the local paper from a poor-but-honest background who is on his way to a new career in Paris after the necessary spell soliciting advertising from shopkeepers and doing the daily rounds of police station, town hall and hospital to gather news. But the character of the arrogant Dr Bellamy is so obviously antipathetic to Maigret (and Simenon) that the investigation is put rather out of balance by all the hostility.
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death, just after someone has slipped a note into his pocket asking him to take a look at Patient 15...So, as so often, Maigret is investigating unofficially in a case where he has no jurisdiction, and he's free to follow his own inclinations without bothering about police procedure. And it soon turns out that this is one of those cases where there is a single suspect who is obviously guilty of something, and the mystery is all about precisely what he has done and why, and whether it can be proved.
There's some nice Atlantic coast atmosphere, some interesting digging into social structures in the town and its hotels, and a brief cameo appearance by the young Simenon himself, as a 19-year-old cub reporter on the local paper from a poor-but-honest background who is on his way to a new career in Paris after the necessary spell soliciting advertising from shopkeepers and doing the daily rounds of police station, town hall and hospital to gather news. But the character of the arrogant Dr Bellamy is so obviously antipathetic to Maigret (and Simenon) that the investigation is put rather out of balance by all the hostility.
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French
Original publication date
1948
Physical description
208 p.; 5.1 inches
ISBN
0141980745 / 9780141980744