Maigret and the Gangsters (English and French Edition) - Hardcover

Simenon, Georges

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0151555656 ISBN 13: 9780151555659

Publisher: Harcourt, 1986

Synopsis

After Inspector Maigret's assistant, Detective Lognon, loses a body, three shady Americans arrive in Paris, and Pozzo, the restaurateur from St. Louis, warns him to watch his step, Maigret discovers that he is dealing with professional criminals

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Language Notes:

Text: English, French (translation)

From Publishers Weekly:

Published in 1951 in France after Simenon's long stay in the U.S., this dandy story projects the author's experiences abroad onto famed Supt. Maigret. A body that vanishes after it's tossed from a speeding car arouses Maigret's suspicions that mobsters from America are in Paris. Beginning his careful investigation, the detective relentlessly questions a shady restaurateur but gets no solid leads to the imported criminals or their presumed victim. Maigret gradually realizes that friends from the FBI are working behind his back and pride insists that he compete with them to solve the case. Simenon gives a larky twist to his seriocomic police procedural, as riveting as his graver works.
Copyright 1986 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0151555656
• ISBN 13: 9780151555659
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 168