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9780156028523
"Maigret . . . ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals."-P E O P L E Human appetites clash with small-town respectability when a teacher in a prim Dutch village is murdered. On his latest case , Maigret finds himself in the town of Delfzijl investigating the murder of a teacher. He is presented with two clues-a sailor's cap in the bathtub and a Manila cigar butt-and a gaggle of suspects, including a flirtatious farmer's daughter, an angry lawyer, a larcenous ship owner, an unaccountably frightened cadet, and a pompous criminologist with a revolver. The Inspector, in turn, is preoccupied with a suspicious pathway lit by a lighthouse beam, which leads him to wonder if this is the kind of spot where secret lovers might be discovered. "Captivating."-T H E N E W YO R K T I M E S B O O K RE V I E W Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was born in Liegrave;ge, Belgium. He published his first novel at seventeen and went on to write more than two hundred novels, becoming one of the world's most prolific and bestselling authors. His books have sold more than 500 million copies and have been translated into fifty languages. Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges SimenonSimenon, Georges is the author of 'Maigret in Holland', published 2003 under ISBN 9780156028523 and ISBN 0156028522.
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