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This was a generous 3 star and I am definitely in the minority. This is my 5th or 6th read in the Maigret series and this was the one I liked the least. I felt the story was just going around in circles, but maybe that was the point and I had the same frustrations as Maigret. Or maybe it was because Leggi tutto

Questo Simenon (della serie del Commissario Maigret) è eccellente, direi uno dei migliori della ventina che ho letto finora. L'intero romanzo è costruito in maniera geniale, dall'evasione dal carcere del primo capitolo con epilogo (della fuga) a sorpresa, al piccolo capitolo finale che per me è un g Leggi tutto

I first read this novel some years ago. This reading carried more intensity and suspense than I had remembered. I'm not sure if that's due to the different translation, since I no longer have the edition with the translation that I had read previously. A condemned criminal has been allowed to escape Leggi tutto

definitely somewhere in between a 4 and a 5 so I don't quite know how to rate it. full post here: http://www.crimesegments.com/2020/02/... Simenon's Maigret sits and observes. He drinks a lot of beer while doing both. He lets a roomful of suspects get on each others' nerves until the actual criminal Leggi tutto

Of all the Inspector Maigret novels I have read thus far (10), "A Man's Head" on the face of it was one of the most baffling to me. The story begins with Maigret visiting La Santé Prison, where a man (Joseph Heurtin) he had apprehended and had apparently proven his guilt in the murders of a rich, el Leggi tutto

Although I found the premise of a condemned man's escape from Death Row by the same authorities who put him there difficult to comprehend initially, once I accepted that at face value, the rest of the story was excellent. Simenon, and by turn, Maigret, never disappoints, even when the task at hand s Leggi tutto