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Maigret volume 1
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Français
Description
Inspector Maigret and his wife's Belgian vacation is cut short when Mrs. Maigret gets appendicitis. Returning from her bedside, Maigret discovers a note in his pocket which causes him to begin an unauthorized investigation.
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Maigret volume 2
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Français
Description
A state sanatorium collapses, killing 128 children. When the construction of the building was being planned, an eminent public works specialist predicted the catastrophe. After the tragedy, the search is on for his report, but where is it?
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Series
Maigret volume 1
Language
Français
Description
An employee of the prestigious Hotel Majestic finds a corpse in the staff locker room.
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Series
Maigret volume 4
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Français
Description
A schoolteacher feels like an outsider in his community, so he's the main suspect when the town's former post-mistress gets shot in her own home. Maigret takes on the case only after the teacher's son appeals to him directly in a letter.
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Series
Maigret volume 4
Language
Français
Description
A mild-mannered man visits Maigret, accusing his wife of wanting to poison him. Maigret then gets a visit from the man's wife, who accuses him of being neurotic. Is Maigret watching a domestic spat unfold, or is it a murder in the making?
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Maigret volume 5
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Français
Description
The inexplicable murder of the wealthy Valentine Besson's maid leads the older woman to believe that she herself was the intended target.
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Maigret volume 2
Language
Français
Description
Working with his nephew on the investigation of the murder of a seemingly ordinary accountant, Maigret finds that the man's life was not as simple as would appear on the surface.
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Series
Maigret volume 6
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Français
Description
A man who owed a lot of people money is thought to have committed suicide when his lifeless body is discovered moments after a shot is fired. Clues lead Maigret to suspect homicide, but it'll be hard to prove it.
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Maigret volume 3
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Français
Description
Inspector Maigret is determined to prove the innocence of a man sentenced to death for the murders of an American woman and her maid.
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Maigret volume 4
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Français
Description
A prostitute is found murdered on the third floor of a respectable building on Avenue Carnot.
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Series
Maigret volume 2
Language
Français
Description
A powerful businessman complains of having received menacing letters and asks Maigret for protection. Maigret knew him when he was a boy and finds him just as unpleasant as he remembered.
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Series
Maigret volume 4
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Français
Description
Maigret is in Caen to assist in organizing the local police department.
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Maigret volume 6
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Français
Description
The body of a homeless man is discovered in a garden owned by two sisters who've been locked in a bitter dispute since 1924. Maigret thinks they have the key to solving the mystery, but getting past their animosity will be the first challenge.
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Series
Maigret volume 4
Language
Français
Description
A man is found wandering the streets of Paris, mute and amnesiac. Under the old wig that overhangs his blank stare, the police discover a shaven head, and a gunshot wound that has been meticulously stitched.
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Maigret volume 5
Language
Français
Description
Though a drunken bargeman hears gun shots from a riverside house, none of the seven people inside the house corroborate his story.
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Series
Maigret volume 2
Language
Français
Description
In his investigation into the fatal stabbing of a hard-drinking Australian man, Maigret meets two women who were central in the dead man's life: his mistress and her mother.
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Series
Maigret volume 4
Language
Français
Description
It should be easy enough to identify a man murdered just off a busy Parisian boulevard at the height of the evening rush hour.
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Series
Maigret volume 3
Language
Français
Description
Maigret's long-lost school chum bumps into him in the street and asks for help. His mistress has just been murdered in her own apartment. The man was there at the time and claims he saw nothing.
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Series
Maigret volume 3
Language
Français
Description
On vacation in the south of France, Maigret is faced with the sudden appearance of a dead body and the disappearance of a wealthy art dealer. Who is Mr. Owen, and why are so many of the hotel guests behaving so strangely?
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Series
Maigret volume 2
Language
Français
Description
Returning from a conference, Maigret visits his old friend Chabot, a judge in a small town which has been rocked by two murders. A third murder soon follows, and Maigret's R&R turns into an investigation.
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