Félicie (Inspector Maigret)

I wrote in my review of Simenon’s ‘The Blue Room’ that all whodunits have to stick to a tried and trusted formula. But that’s not quite true, as in ‘Félicie’ we have a whodunit that does everything it can to break that formula. It pushes at it, it shoves at it; eventually it punches so hard it nearl......more

Years later Chief Inspector Maigret remembers the infuriating housekeeper Félicie. Although 24, she acts more like a tween, an inveterate liar who stubbornly insists she’ll reveal nothing about the murder of her employer, the retired bookkeeper Jules “Peg Leg” Lapie. Maigret muses, “She’d given him......more

Pubblicato anche col titolo La ragazza di Maigret, Félicie è il 25esimo libro che Simenon scrive con protagonista il commissario Maigret. Capisco perché la casa editrice Adelphi ha deciso di cambiare il titolo: proprio perché la vera protagonista di questa indagine è lei, Félicie, bugiarda e capricc......more

"Peg Leg" Lapie, a crusty sailor, is found shot dead in a pretty cottage on the Jeanneville Development, the toy village of the title, close to Paris. He's lived there for years with only a servant girl / housekeeper called Felicie for company, though recently his nephew, Petillon, had stayed for a......more

Another enjoyable Maigret. This time Maigret reminisces about Felicie a 24 year old housekeeper for a man called Pegleg who is murdered. She refuses to cooperate with Maigret who is frustrated by her stubbornness. What amuses me is his fixation on her and how after some investigation he finds the tr......more