Maigret's little joke

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When Maigret's holiday plans go awry he and his wife spend their vacation in Paris, on the condition that he has nothing to do with work.

How can he keep his promise to Mme Maigret and let Inspector Janvier get on with solving the crime when he is haunted by the question: why was the murdered woman naked? Products shown, tagged or featured on YouTube by creators are sold by merchants and are subject to merchant's terms and conditions. Bright, clean copy with no markings inside and only the very lightest bump to the front lower aqua board.I enjoyed the first half of the book more than the windup; it seemed the farther we went the worse the rendition got. They revisit their old haunts, eat sausages and chips in riverside bistros, and nearly walk Madame's feet off up and down the quays.

By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.But Philippe Jave had secretly come to Paris that day, and in fact he had a girlfriend, Antoinette Chauvet, the young daughter of one of his maids, Josépha Chauvet. The mystery can be a bit tricky to follow: it involves a very complicated set of intimate relationships. A full-cast dramatisation starring Maurice Denham as Inspector Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon Georges Simenon and his masterful inspector, Jules Maigret, look back together over one of their favourite cases in this full-cast dramatisation that has been specially adapted for radio from the original novel.

The stories are The Yellow Dog, Inspector Cadaver, Maigret's Little Joke and Maigret and the Burglar's Wife. Standing here at the window in the middle of the morning, vaguely observing the comings and goings in the street, he had a feeling that reminded of certain days in his childhood, when his mother was still alive and he was off school because he had the flu or it was the end of term.

He also got accosted by the fiancee of one of the possible suspects, and he therefore does a couple of surreptitious interviews, though trying to stay out of Lucas' way, as it is officially the new Inspector's responsibility. Inspector Maigret is meant to be taking a holiday, but he can’t resist following the development of his colleague Janvier’s case in the papers – and playing a few tricks on the way.

Light wear only to blue boards with bright gilt titles on the spine, edges are tanned, pages are clean, binding is tight. Le petit vieux à barbichette sortait à nouveau de l'ombre de l'entrepôt, à reculons, regardait à gauche et à droite, avec un geste des deux mains comme pour attirer vers lui le lourd camion dont il dirigeait la manœuvre. The edition I read was translated by one Dennis Brain, and I'm afraid he could have done with an independent and bilingual proofreader. Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U. When a particularly sensational murder takes place in Paris, Chief Inspector Maigret is on holiday and must follow the investigation like any member of the public, through newspapers and news flashes.Wouldn't you know it, there's an intriguing murder that involves a woman's naked body stuffed into a cupboard in the rich part of town! But you read a Simenon book more for the air, and there's a lot of here, with lovely details of Paris. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.