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Maigret's Holiday

✍ Scribed by Georges Simenon; Translated by Ros Schwartz


Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Year
2016
Tongue
English
Weight
172 KB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis


While on holiday, Maigret is drawn into the murder of a teenage girl and subsequent disappearance of her brother and must confront an evil that is hidden in plain sight. The twenty-eighth book in the new Penguin Maigret series. During their holidays in Sables-d'Olonne, Maigret's wife is hospitalized with appendicitis and Maigret receives a strange note instructing him to visit a patient in another ward. To solve the mysterious case that has left a young woman dead and her brother missing, Maigret must give one of his best performances yet in a story laced with mood, class tension, and in the end, of course, justice. From the Trade Paperback edition.


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