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“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré
A story of love and obsession featuring a most memorable femme fatale, starring the intrepid Inspector Maigret

 
Peg Leg Lapie, a crusty old sailor, is found mysteriously murdered in a most incongruous setting: a picturesque cottage near Paris, where he lived attended only by his young housekeeper, Félicie. But Lapie was not alone—Maigret, chief inspector of the Paris police, is sure of it. A man at work in his garden, wearing clogs and a straw hat, does not suddenly drop his tools to go indoors and fetch a bottle of brandy to drink alone in the summerhouse. There must have been another glass that someone removed. But Félicie, in her red hat trimmed with an iridescent feather, proves a champion adversary, as skilled in innuendo and evasion as Maigret is in deduction.

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Series: Inspector Maigret Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Kindle Book

  • ISBN: 9781101991916
  • Release date: May 17, 2016

OverDrive Read

  • ISBN: 9781101991916
  • File size: 558 KB
  • Release date: May 17, 2016

EPUB ebook

  • ISBN: 9781101991916
  • File size: 558 KB
  • Release date: May 17, 2016

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Kindle Book
OverDrive Read
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Languages

English

“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré
A story of love and obsession featuring a most memorable femme fatale, starring the intrepid Inspector Maigret

 
Peg Leg Lapie, a crusty old sailor, is found mysteriously murdered in a most incongruous setting: a picturesque cottage near Paris, where he lived attended only by his young housekeeper, Félicie. But Lapie was not alone—Maigret, chief inspector of the Paris police, is sure of it. A man at work in his garden, wearing clogs and a straw hat, does not suddenly drop his tools to go indoors and fetch a bottle of brandy to drink alone in the summerhouse. There must have been another glass that someone removed. But Félicie, in her red hat trimmed with an iridescent feather, proves a champion adversary, as skilled in innuendo and evasion as Maigret is in deduction.

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