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The Werewolf of Paris Guy Endore · 2010 · ★ 3.6 · 304p · ≈ 10h · Moderate 294 p. : 24 cm Shares: Paris, France, Werewolves

Maigret et le clochard Georges Simenon · 1963 · ★ 3.7 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Moderate A vagrant living under a bridge is assaulted at night, knocked hard enough to fracture his skull, and thrown into the River Seine. Two bargemen from barges moored nearby fish him out of the cold water before he drowns and he ends up in the hospital in a coma. Chief Superintendent Maigret is called to the scene. One of the bargemen, whose boat is moored near the ramp coming down the embankment,… Shares: Paris, France

Le pendu de Saint-Pholien Georges Simenon · 1931 · ★ 3.8 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Challenging 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… Shares: Paris, France

La nuit du carrefour Georges Simenon · 1931 · ★ 3.7 · 168p · ≈ 5h · Challenging A classic among Simenons, this is the story of Maigret's night vigil at the Three Widows' Crossroads, where the body of a Jewish diamond-merchant had been found. Pompous M. Michonnet, at one house, owned the car containing the corpse; aristocratic Carl Andersen, the Dane, owned the garage containing the car; and vulgar M. Oscar, at the service-station, simply sold petrol to all-comers. None of… Shares: Paris, France

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