An edition of Maigret et la grande perche (1955)

Maigret Et LA Grande Perche

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An edition of Maigret et la grande perche (1955)

Maigret Et LA Grande Perche

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The police knew him as "Sad Freddie." The newspapers tagged him "the burglar on a bike." Once he had worked for a safe-manufacturing firm. Now he was In business for himself, cracking the safes he had once installed.

Tuesday night's job was to be his last. Then he and his wife would buy a place in the country. It was to have been a routine job, but on his way to the safe in a house in Neuilly. Freddie stumbled across something that was altogether out of his line: a dead woman, her chest covered with blood, holding a telephone in her hand.

When Maigret is called in, he finds that the house belongs to an overweight dentist and his elegant, ancient mother. After an exhaustive search, a psychological duel, a marathon interrogation. and innumerable glasses of Pernod, wine, cold beer, and brandy — a sure sign that this is no easy case — the famous French sleuth triumphs.

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Publisher
Hachette
Language
French
Pages
189

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Edition Availability
Cover of: Maigret and the Tall Woman
Maigret and the Tall Woman: Inspector Maigret #38
2016, Penguin Books, Limited
in English
Cover of: Maigret und die Bohnenstange
Maigret und die Bohnenstange: Roman
2009, Diogenes
in German
Cover of: Maigret Et LA Grande Perche
Maigret Et LA Grande Perche
December 1999, Hachette
Mass Market Paperback in French
Cover of: Maigret and the burglar's wife
Maigret and the burglar's wife
1990, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Hardcover in English - 2nd U.S. ed.
Cover of: Maigret and the burglar's wife
Maigret and the burglar's wife
1959, Penguin Books in association with Hamish Hamilton
in English

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The Physical Object

Format
Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages
189
Dimensions
7.1 x 4.4 x 0.8 inches
Weight
3.8 ounces

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL12467794M
ISBN 10
2253142239
ISBN 13
9782253142232
Library Thing
668134
Goodreads
140819

First Sentence

"The official slip of paper, duly filled in and handed to Maigret by the office boy, read: Ernestine Micou, alias Lofty (now Jussiaume), who, when you arrested her seventeen years ago on rue de la Lune, stripped herself naked to taunt you, requests the favor of an interview on a matter of most urgent and important business."

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October 15, 2022 Edited by mheimanbot Fixed author redirect
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April 30, 2008 Created by an anonymous user Imported from amazon.com record