Inspector Maigret Maigret in New York, Book 27, (Paperback)

from jon1lambert

Read almost in one sitting at Wembley awaiting the start of the Forest Green Rovers v Grimsby National League final. Like Forest Green, the novel started well as the great detective is pulled out of retirement for his first visit to New York. Somehow as it progressed, the story became complicated...

from hardlyhardy

Can you imagine a detective who not only claims not to be intelligent but also says he never uses deductive reasoning or even forms an idea, yet solves scores of difficult cases? Well Georges Simenon could, and from 1931 to 1972 in 75 novels and half as many short stories did just that. In “Maigr...

from BooksForDinner

These are always good. Actually, I usually dislike the "(anyone) in New York" books in a series as they are usually terrible for someone like me who actually lives there, but this one held up pretty well. The gangster-y feel was a little silly, but it was of the period, lots of writing like that ...

from smik

Maigret has retired to the Loire Valley but his services are still in demand. A young man is brought to see him by an elderly lawyer. Jean Maura is a law student whose father John Maura is an American millionaire living in New York. Jean has become concerned that his father's life is in danger an...

from Miguelnunonave

For all of Simenon's fame as a murder novels writer, I was quite disappointed, this being the first book I ever read by him. Maybe not the best choice to approach the author, though. Too flat and unexciting.