Maigret and the Judge's House
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Maigret and the Judge's House
Maigret, banished to the French countryside, bit into this case almost with relish...
The news of a dead body spotted in the house of a former judge is a godsend for the famous detective, who, to his immense disappointment, has been appointed chief commissioner of the provincial town of Luçon. So he immediately sets off for the coastal village of Aiguil, inhabited mainly by fishermen and mussel farmers, to launch an investigation in the surprisingly opulent surroundings of the Forlacroix family villa, with the aim of discovering the identity of the murderer and his victim. Will he be able to penetrate the closed community, uncover its long-buried secrets and unravel the strange relationship between the old judge, his hot-blooded son Albert and his nymphomaniac daughter Lisa?
In a masterfully constructed story with a suitably oppressive atmosphere, Commissioner Maigret once again gets the opportunity to demonstrate his knowledge of the darkest corners of the human mind and his ability to look deep beneath the surface of events.
They wrote about the book:
A story from Georges Simenon's early, vital creative period.
- The New York Times
A writer who is as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.
- John Le Carré
Georges Simenon
(1903-1989) Thanks to the character of Jules Maigret in the Paris police station on the Embankment of the Goldsmiths, he became one of the most famous francophone writers. He began writing for a living at the age of sixteen, when he started as a newspaper elite in his native Belgian town of Liege, and after moving to Paris in 1923, he devoted the next ten years to the creation of notebook novels. He published the first detective story in a seventy-five-volume series of cases of a grumpy man with a bow and a hard-on in 1930, and remained in his flamboyant company as an author until 1972. The vast majority of Maigret's cases were adapted into films, including. starring Jean Gabin, Bruno Cremer and, most recently, Rowan Atkinson. An exceptionally prolific writer whose bibliography numbers 400 titles and 800 million copies sold in 50 languages, he also contributed to excellent psychological novels with a criminal plot, such as. Widow, Teddy bear, A man from London, The blue room, Unknown in the House or Star of the North, also filmed.
