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Loading... Maigret and the Death of a Harbor-Master (edition 1989)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. A pretty great Maigret. I loved the first 20 pages - as M. wanders around a pitch foggy dock almost being knocked into a lock and other barriers all the while having lots of people around him that he didn't even know were there! great, great atmosphere. Then the bar and the locals and the seaman who will never trust or talk to a landlubber. Features actual violence (rare) and a long slow waiting game with the mayor his wife a brute of a seaman and his sweet sister. To my tastes the long waiting game maybe went on a bit too long, but that is nit picking! ( ) Appena iniziato il libro non avevo aspettative, né in bene, né in male. Non sono un’appassionata di romanzi gialli, di polizieschi, e non ne ho letti molti. Così, affidatomi questo libro dalla professoressa di lettere, ho iniziato a leggerlo con grande fatica; perché sì, ho trovato i primi sei capitoli (sono tredici in totale) lenti e a mio gusto noiosi. Tuttavia, raggiunta la metà, devo dire che l’ho rivalutato di punto in bianco. Finalmente avevo trovato la suspense, l’azione, il mistero che avrei invece voluto trovare sin dalla prima pagina, ma che purtroppo ho trovato solo a metà. Beh, meglio tardi che mai! Sono del parere che, quando si inizia a leggere un libro, non si debbano avere aspettative di alcun genere: potrebbero rovinare la lettura, che, invece, non ha mai fine certa, proprio come è capitato a me con Il Porto delle Nebbie di Georges Simenon. Chief Inspector Maigret is sent down to the small seaside village of Quistreham. It is known for having one of the ship-canals that link up with the water ways for freighting. Maigret is accompanying Captain Joris and his housekeeper, Julie, back home. The Captain had been missing for a couple of months. When he was found, he wasn’t speaking and a scar was found on the top of his head, neatly patched. The man had no ID, was wearing new clothes with the tags removed and had five thousand francs in his pockets. He was a mystery. His housekeeper saw a picture of him in the newspaper and quickly arrived at Maigret’s desk to identify the man and take him home. Maigret went along to solve the mystery of the man’s disappearance and how he had been wounded. Maigret found the village to be tight knit and the weather dark and damp. It is a difficult, at best, for Maigret to get any information from the seamen or the inhabitants of the village. There seems to be something going on, but find a thread is hard. It is a moody and atmospheric read. Maigret has to do some heavy thinking to make sense of what little information he finds, and to untangle the relationships between people. The ending is a real twist...and that’s all I write about it. Except that I did enjoy the read. no reviews | add a review
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'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he remains mute . . . A madman? In Maigret's office, he is searched. His suit is new, his underwear is new, his shoes are new. All identifying labels have been removed. No identification papers. No wallet. Five crisp thousand-franc bills have been slipped into one of his pockets. A distressed man is found wandering the streets of Paris, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. The answers lead Maigret to a small harbour town, whose quiet citizens conceal a poisonous malice. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Death of a Harbour Master. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent No library descriptions found. |
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