About this title: It's closing time at the Gai Moulin, and Jean Chabot and Rene Delfrosse are planning to rob the till to pay of their debts. To their surprise, they stumble upon a dead body. What at first seems to the police an open and shut case proves more complicated when the body turns up next at the zoo, stuffed into a wicker basket. Into the puzzlement steps ...
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780156551762ISBN:0156551764
Description: Very Good. Light wear to edges, reading crease to cover. Tight book; clean pages. Very good paperback. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 500 grams. Category: Fiction--Mystery ISBN: 0156551764 Inventory No: 059961. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Harvest Books
Date Published: 1993-04
ISBN-13:9780156551762ISBN:0156551764
Description: Like New. Like new softcover in excellent condition, no writing, non-smoking home, clean text, binding tight, Christian business. read more
Edition: First Paperback Edition
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, NY
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780156551762ISBN:0156551764
Description: Very Good. 4 1/8" x 7" 0156551764 PAPERBACK When two men decide to rob a nightclub to pay off their debts things go wrong when they stumble across a body instead. Light wear at edges, rubbed. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NY
Date Published: 1991
Description: Second edition, first printing. Hardcover. DJ in new mylar. 166 pages. DJ has a tiny bit of price-sticker residue on rear panel. Fine/Near fine. read more
Edition: Second Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NY
Date Published: 1991
ISBN-13:9780151555680ISBN:0151555680
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0151555680. Translated from the French by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Illustration of the author with pipe in mouth on rear jacket flap by Youngman Carter. Jacket lightly scuffed, else a clean, tight copy. A couple of young thugs discover a body when breaking into the seedy Gai-Moulin, a nightclub in Liege.; 0.77 x 8.55 x 5.85 Inches; 166 pages. read more
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Tight binding. Minimal wear. Clean text. Possibly unread. Small stain on spine. Stamp from store and price on 1st pg. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: FINE (4) / paperbacks. All four of these Inspector Maigret mysteries in fine excellent condition, no markings, straight binding, very bright. Nice gift or to keep. 1990s, Harcourt paperbacks. In one pkg, not priority. read more
"I love prolific mystery masters. Simenon just never misses. I've read around a dozen and all have been stellar. I just wish the edition I'm reading had such a foxy cover! Mine has two guys at a cafe table in a Diego Rivera style. Ho-hum.
Speaking of covers, I fell in love with Simenon by actually judging a book by its cover. Penguin published a series of these lovely art-deco pocket size editions, the design of which so directly spoke to me that I thought about sending a letter to the Penguin Marketing staff with all my personal information and buying habits because they obviously made these books especially for me and I was very grateful.
As I said, they've all been great, but I suggest The Bar on the Seine."
"France's answer to Hercule Poirot. This is a mystery series from the 1950's. Maigret shows up at the scene of the crime and solves the mystery. Interesting from a historical/cultural point of view, but at least this mystery wasn't terribly mysterious. I have't read any other books in the series."
"If it's possible, I think I have at last found my favorite Maigret book. Ever. This is a faster paced yet easier to follow version of the best parts of Simenon's series. And while the classic Maigret features (the psychological issues surrounding the crime, a climactic and satisfying ending, a clueless but endearing local police officer) are still there, the novel certainly stands out for straying from the common path. First, Inspector Maigret doesn't even appear as a central character until almost 2/3 through the novel, leaving an interesting and refreshing narrative through other people's eyes for the majority of the story. It doesn't take place in Paris, the reader is not part of Maigret's knowledge of the case (or even how he became involved) until much later, and the reader is given a special insight into a few characters and their worlds that is not present in Simenon's other books. A great first read for anyone who knows nothing of Maigret, and a great refreshing change for anyone who (like me) enjoys the series but is looking for something slightly set apart from the rest."
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