Quand Maigret arriva à Delfzijl, une après-midi de mai, il n'avait sur l'affaire qui l'appelait dans cette petite ville plantée à l'extrême nord de la Hollande que des notions élémentaires. Un certain Jean Duclos, professeur à l'université de Nancy, faisait une tournée de conférences dans les pays d
A Crime in Holland
✍ Scribed by Georges Simenon
- Publisher
- Penguin Group US
- Year
- 2014
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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✦ Synopsis
'Just take a look,' Duclos said in an undertone, pointing to the scene all round them, the picture-book town, with everything in its place, like ornaments on the mantlepiece of a careful housewife . . . 'Everyone here earns his living. Everyone's more or less content. And above all, everyone keeps his instincts under control, because that's the rule here, and a necessity if people want to live in society'
When a French professor visiting the quiet, Dutch coastal town of Delfzjil is accused of murder, Maigret is sent to investigate. The community seem happy to blame an unknown outsider, but there are people much closer to home who seem to know much more than they're letting on: Beetje, the dissatisfied daughter of a local farmer, Any van Elst, sister-in-law of the deceased, and, of course, a notorious local crook.
Written in the dark, grimly comic prose that Simenon is renowned for, A Crime In Holland will delight lifelong fans and new readers alike.
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