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Georges Simenon
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There was an exaggerated humility about her. Her cowed eyes, her way of gliding noiselessly about without bumping into things, of quivering nervously at the slightest word, were the very image of a scullery maid accustomed to hardship. And yet he sensed, beneath that image, glints of pride held firmly in check. She was anaemic. Her flat chest was not formed to rouse desire. Nevertheless, she was strangely appealing, perhaps because she seemed troubled, despondent, sickly.
In the windswept seaside town of Concarneau, a local wine merchant is shot. In fact, someone is out to kill all the influential men and the entire town is soon sent into a state of panic. For Maigret, the answers lie with the pale, downtrodden waitress Emma, and a strange yellow dog lurking in the shadows...
Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels. This is a revised edition of Linda Asher's existing translation.
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray
'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian
'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent
Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
Linda Asher is a former fiction editor of the New Yorker and the award winning translator of many works from French including those of Milan Kundera.
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Small town gripped by fear
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“Don’t combine! Don’t deduce!”. In this tale, Commissaire Maigret repeatedly orders his temporary assistant Leroy to take it easy, because he quickly senses that nothing really is what it seems to be in the small harbor town of Concarneau. A night-time gunshot from the letterbox of a vacant building severely injures wine merchant Mostaguen. Not much later retired journalist Servières disappears; blood is found in his abandoned car. Skirt chaser Le Pommeret suddenly dies at home, poisoned. This trio of town notables forms a foursome with doctor Michoux, who is not a doctor but a kind of realtor and who is scared to death of being the next to come to grief… The quartet regularly have drinks and play cards at the local café and hotel ‘De l’Amiral’, where Maigret takes up residence to observe the growing confusion and fear, occasionally making a stab at investigating, but basically ruminating, absorbing impressions in the bar and the increasingly fearful town. Who is the owner of the large and ugly yellow dog spotted near each crime site, who once even graces the hotel bar, of all places, with his presence? And who is the unknown man with the XXL shoe size?
“The yellow dog” is an early Maigret from 1931 when Simenon produced ten books in one year. This book contains several elements that return regularly in his work, incl. his psychological novels, such as remaining inequalities rooted in the feudal past (notably the treatment of working girls and women), his knowledge and love of ships and maritime matters and the journalistic profession. Simenon was also a great lover of women and Maigret’s intrigued and worried interactions with the vulnerable waitress Emma are quite endearing.
And he turns out to be right. Nothing was what is appeared to be. The crimes and incidents inflicted on the quartet go back to a scam that took place almost as many years ago as the yellow dog is old. Detective story full of twists and turns, French pathos and a US angle, and the power of intuition. Whilst Maigret’s psychological novels often finish amidst death and high drama, this Maigret has a happy ending. For Emma, not for the yellow dog, alas.Vond je dit een nuttige review?00
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