Cécile Is Dead (Inspector Maigret)

Someone could say that if you've read one Maigret novel, you've read all and that person has quite a good point of view. But I'd say that if you'd liked one you've liked all. This one in particular is almost average for Simenon's own standards, but has that final twist which changes almost all: two......more

Romanul ne prezinta inca un caz spectaculos si incalcit din cariera comisarului francez Jules Maigret. De data aceasta totul porneste de la niste vizite surprinzatoare si naive din partea unei tinere, pe numele ei Cecile, la registratura Politiei. Ea pare sa se planga cu toata seriozitatea ca cineva......more

A nervous spinster, Cécile Pardon, has been telling Chief Inspector Maigret a ridiculous tale: that someone has been breaking into the apartment she shared with her invalid aunt and rearranging items and furniture. The entire Police Judiciare attribute Cécile’s reports to her having a crush on Maigr......more

tenete conto che dei libri, perfino dei gialli, dimentico rapidamente la trama e addirittura lil finale, per trattenere solo le atmosfere, la descrizione di uno stato d'animo o di un luogo, qualche frase. Il resto finisce nel dimenticatoio. In base a questo criterio (che non è neanche un criterio, è......more

I am now past the point of thinking of Georges Simenon's Maigret novels simply as genre literature. Any writer of mysteries who could enthrall the likes of William Faulkner, Muriel Spark, Peter Ackroyd, André Gide, P. D. James, and John Banville clearly has a lot more going for him than mere whoduni......more