La casa dei fiamminghi

Most of the classical mystery authors I know about are either Americans or British. So discovering an author who's none of those two categories is always interesting for me. And this Belgium Author didn't disappoint me at all. A typical golden age mystery set in Givet, a small town which lies on the Leggi tutto

Ths is an atmospheric Maigret. The wife of Maigret asks him to go to a small town called Givet on the river Meuse and border with France and Belgium. One of his wife's relatives asked her if Maigret could come and investigate unoffically the disapperance of a young woman. It is January and in the de Leggi tutto

Determined Anna Peeters, through sheer perseverance, gets Chief Inspector Jules Maigret to intercede in her family’s case. Located in Givet, a French seaport on the border with Belgium, the Peeters family runs a shop, the Épicerie Peeters (a.k.a. the Flemish House), on the French side of the border Leggi tutto

I found this book a while back in the thrift shop for 25 cents. Normally I don't really like murder mysteries, but I wanted to give this a try. It was an okay book, but I missed the clue at the end. There for it gets only 3 points. I wished the end and the names of the characters was more worked on. Leggi tutto

3 star جنبه روانشناسی این داستان نسبت به جنبه جنایی آن پررنگ تر و بارز تر است این داستان را می توان یک اثر کلاسیک در حوزه روانشناسیِ جنایی تلقی کرد پسری ناتوان، رنجور، افسرده که نقش پدری را ایفا میکند که در داستان معلول و پیر است و همیشه روی صندلی چرخ دار در دنیای خود سیر می کند ... پدری که در طول داس Leggi tutto

Πρόκειται για ένα από τα πιο 'στρωτά' στη δομή της πλοκής και των διαλόγων μυθιστορήματα/νουβέλες του Σιμενόν, όπου μεγάλο ενδιαφέρον παρουσιάζουν οι περιγραφές των περιοχών στα γαλλο-φλαμανδικά σύνορα, αλλά καί οι διαπολιτισμικές διαφορές και υπάρχουσες προκαταλήψεις μεταξύ των Γάλλων και των Φλαμα Leggi tutto

Another Maigret. What can I say? I cannot stop reading about this Parisian detective. This particular mystery does not take place in Paris, however, but on the Belgian border in the town called Givet. Maigret is not officially on duty, he only comes because a young woman has specifically asked him to Leggi tutto