The dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris is brought to life in this new translation, book twenty-one in the new Penguin Maigret series. _'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess . . . In a suite that costs more than a
The Cellars of the Majestic
β Scribed by Georges Simenon
- Book ID
- 100235096
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Year
- 2015;2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0698409213
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β¦ Synopsis
The dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris is brought to life in this new translation, book twenty-one in the new Penguin Maigret series.
Maigret investigates the murder of Mrs. Clark, the wife of a wealthy American industrialist, whose strangled body is found in the basement of an upscale hotel near the Champs-ΓlysΓ©es. Maigret's inquiries take him from the endless corridors of the Hotel Majestic to the countryside of the Bois de Boulogne and sun-drenched Cannes, into a world of prostitution, drug addiction, and blackmail.
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