Maigret in Exile

Download or read book Maigret in Exile written by Georges Simenon and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P. This book was released on 1979 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inspector has fallen into disfavor with his Paris superiors and has been shunted to a district supervisor's job on the northern French coast. Here, among mussel-gatherers and lobstermen, Maigret suffers depression and boredom. He is an outsider. Even the local police inspector is dull and predictable, as everything in the coastal villages appears to be. But the discovery of a corpse in the house of a retired judge returns a sense of purpose to Maigret. The Boston Globe called this "one of Simenon's best Maigrets . . . replete with his customary irony and deft characterization".