Inspector Maigret: The Yellow Dog (Series #5) (Paperback)

from stillatim

People seem to really like this Maigret; I didn't like it more than many of the others I've read. Of course, there isn't much variation.

from AQsReviews

The Yellow Dog was first published in 1931, when Georges Simenon (1903 – 1989) blasted out a bunch of Maigret novels. The title is kind of subtle, yes there is a blonde dog in the novel. But the phrase is moreso a euphemism for one of the characters. This novel, like the other Maigret stories I ...

from Markus.bauer

Eine Art Kammerspiel in einem Cafe/Hotel in der Kleinstadt Concarneau am Meer in der Bretagne, das Bürgertum zerfällt und Maigret wartet bis sich der Fall fast von selber löst.

from thom001

The rainy Breton port town of Concarneau provides a moody background to Le Chien jaune (Maigret and the Yellow Dog in English), Georges Simenon's tale of revenge featuring the stolid and unflappable Commissaire Maigret. True to form, the strengths of Simenon's novel are its atmospheric sense of p...

from charlie68

A satisfying mystery aptly written.