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Maigret and the lazy burglar

Simenon, Georges, 1903-19892018
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Superintendent Maigret is called out in the middle of a cold winter night to the Bois de Boulogne, where a savagely bludgeoned corpse has been dumped in the woods. While the Public Prosecutor's department dismisses the violent crime as part of an underworld vendetta, Maigret refuses to drop the case. He has recognized the body as that of Honor Cuendet, a likeable burglar he had encountered several times before, and he knows he was never a gangster. Despite orders from his superiors to concentrate on catching the notorious Fernand gang, and with only a couple of wildcat hairs on the dead man's clothes as clues, the determined Maigret continues to investigate the murder - even though he knows the killer may never be brought to justice
Main title:
Maigret and the lazy burglar / Georges Simenon ; translated by Howard Curtis.
Imprint:
London : Penguin Books, 2018.©2018
Collation:
151 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Originally published in French in 1961.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780241303917 (pbk)9780241303917 (paperback)
Dewey class:
843.912
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
778775
LocationCollectionCall numberStatus/Desc
narrm ngarrgu Library and Family ServicesFictionSIMEAvailable
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