Inspector Maigret The Saint-Fiacre Affair, Book 13, (Paperback)

from ChazziFrazz

A note stating that a crime will be committed on All Souls' Day in the churche at Saint-Fiacre during first mass. The police departments laugh and ignore it. Maigret cannot; it is his birthplace. He knows many of the people there.Returning to the town, Maigret witnesses the murder, but there is n...

from TomDonaghey

MAIGRET GOES HOME (1959) by Georges Simenon is one of the essential works from this master writer. Here Maigret has gotten a note saying there will be a murder committed during the first mass at a church in a small town. Nothing else. But the town is where he grew up and Maigret decides to return...

from bookczuk

Wow! A Maigret I didn't like?! It might have been the translation, but I found it difficult to keep characters straight, especially in thoughts and conversations. Also, except for the dead woman and the innkeeper, all were male, so pronouns gave no clues. But I did like the return of Maigert to h...

from Markus.bauer

Maigret reist auf Grund eines anonymen Hinweises an den Ort seiner Kindheit zu dem Landgut, wo sein Vater Verwalter war. Der Fall entwickelt sich zu einem Kammerspiel a la Agatha Christie.

from BooksForDinner

Another excellent Maigret. The dinner scene at the end of the novel, while certainly unrealistic, was gripping, just very well written.