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Maigret's First Case

By: Georges Simenon, Sian Reynolds - translator
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
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Summary

A sparkling new translation of this flashback to the start of Inspector Maigret's career, part of the new Penguin Maigret series.

The profession he had always yearned for did not actually exist...he imagined a cross between a doctor and a priest - a man capable of understanding another's destiny at first glance.

The very first investigation by eager young police secretary Jules Maigret leads him to a wealthy Paris family's dark secrets.

©2016 Georges Simenon (P)2016 Audible, Ltd
Classics Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Fiction
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"His artistry is supreme." (John Banville)
"One of the greatest writers of the 20th century.... Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." ( Guardian)

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Delightful reading of an intelligently nuanced story. No more need be said but I’m for ed to use 15 words!

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One of Simenon's best stories and, although dated, it captures an atmosphere of the time

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One of the best novels

I have listened to all the stories so far from Book 1, and this is one of the best and indeed possibly the best

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Atmospheric

I was not sure what to expect but I wasn’t disappointed. It was in a way an explanation of why the future stories panned out the way they did.

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