Le pendu de Saint-Pholien
About this book
First published as *Le Pendu de St Pholien*, this early Simenon records how Maigret unwittingly drove a little man to suicide. You'd have said that Louis Jeunet was a down-at-heel layabout, but he was packeting up over 30,000 francs when Maigret first spotted him in Brussels. When he posted the money, unregistered, as 'Printed Matter', Maigret followed him for fun. He took a train for the north. At the German frontier Maigret switched suitcases, in a spirit of idle curiosity, but when Jeunet discovered his loss at Bremen he took out a gun and shot himself, and Maigret was left to cope with his own culpability. His subsequent inquiries provoked two attempts on his life and eventually led to Liege, Simenon's birthplace, where in a crazy slum he taps the source of a macabre story which is reminiscent of Francois Villon.
Reader Profile
3.8/5 · 4366 readers · 161 pages · ≈ 2 h 59 m · Challenging
How long does it take to read Le pendu de Saint-Pholien?
About ≈ 2 h 59 m — 161 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.
How many pages is Le pendu de Saint-Pholien?
161 pages in its most-read edition.
What genre is Le pendu de Saint-Pholien?
It sits on the Thriller, Mystery, Fiction shelves.
Is Le pendu de Saint-Pholien in the public domain?
No — it is still under copyright.
Who wrote Le pendu de Saint-Pholien?
Georges Simenon.