Maigret e i testimoni recalcitranti

Some people are obsessed with the glorious past and are prepared to maintain their illusions at all costs. Some crimes are inevitable.

The more you read Simenon, the more you like Maigret stories. And this one looks like one of his best: easy to read, many dialogues (it could be very well a play!), interested characters and an unexpected final.

Wow, my tenth Maigret became the best! How does his mind work really (the writer or Maigret)?! And If you think you know what this was about or solved the mystery, I suggest reading the last page twice, try thinking like Maigret... Wow

Maigret is two years from retirement. It’s November, raining and he has a sore neck and is grumpy. A murder has occurred with a strange family who own a biscuit company. One of the brothers has been shot through the heart during an apparent burglary gone wrong Maigret finds that the company only sur Leggi tutto

I have now read 72 'Maigret' novels and this was the 72nd. Only three more to go! I love Maigret but I am slightly bored with one particular scenario found in the series, namely the old upper-middle-class family with secrets who are uncooperative. However, this novel turned out not to be what I had f Leggi tutto

"It was as if suddenly, long ago, life had stopped here, not the life of the man lying on the bed but the life of the house, of the world it represented, and even the factory chimney that could be seen through the curtains looked obsolete and absurd..." p.16 "Everything was decrepit, the house's conte Leggi tutto