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Loading... The Madman of Bergerac (1932)by Georges Simenon
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Maigret turns Nero Wolfe in this one and spends the majority of the novel bedridden after taking a bullet to the shoulder in the opening chapter. It's an interesting experiment, but the story's a little too convoluted and implausible to make for really compelling reading. The addition of his wife as sidekick also felt rather limp. Maigret turns Nero Wolfe in this one and spends the majority of the novel bedridden after taking a bullet to the shoulder in the opening chapter. It's an interesting experiment, but the story's a little too convoluted and implausible to make for really compelling reading. The addition of his wife as sidekick also felt rather limp. Maigret has been shot by a mysterious stranger, who may or may not be the perpetrator of two murders. Maigret cannot leave his bed so has to work everything out from what others tell him and what he can visualise in his mind. This reminded me of the Josephine Tey book where the detective works out the Richard III mystery while lying in bed. no reviews | add a review
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'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep - was it really sleep? - his sighs, and his sobbing. Then the two dangling legs, the patent-leather shoes and hand-knitted socks . . . An insipid face. Glazed eyes. And Maigret was not surprised to see a grey beard eating into his cheeks. A distressed passenger leaps off a night train and vanishes into the woods. Maigret, on his way to a well-earned break in the Dordogne, is soon plunged into the pursuit of a madman, hiding amongst the seemingly respectable citizens of Bergerac. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent No library descriptions found. |
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Two parts of this I found exceptional: the initial chapter that takes place mostly on the train and then after they jump off, and Maigret's dream as he finds himself unable to make progress on the case. Great writing. ( )