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The Yellow Dog (Maigret, #6)

Georges Simenon

Start date: July 15, 2022

Finish date: August 7, 2022

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Why we're reading this: Next in our series of Maigret reads.
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Apr 16, 2019 Adrian rated it it was amazing

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A lunchtime Listen ( May 2022)
I think this is now the second Maigret that has a been a lunchtime ;listen for my wife and I. With most of the renovation on the house complete these are an excellent series of books as they are all only about 4 hrs long. So a few long lunchtimes and you've heard the whole story.
As I mentioned below, when I read the book, it is as ever a fabulous snippet of French life from early last century and I would recommend to anyone who enjoys detective mysteries and has an A lunchtime Listen ( May 2022)
I think this is now the second Maigret that has a been a lunchtime ;listen for my wife and I. With most of the renovation on the house complete these are an excellent series of books as they are all only about 4 hrs long. So a few long lunchtimes and you've heard the whole story.
As I mentioned below, when I read the book, it is as ever a fabulous snippet of French life from early last century and I would recommend to anyone who enjoys detective mysteries and has an interest in classical examples of this genre, as well as a flavour of France.
I have to say that the Maigret's we have listened to so far have all been read wonderfully by Gareth Armstrong (maybe he has read them all ? )

Personal Challenge (April 2019)
And so my personal challenge to read all the Maigrets continues.

This is number 5 in the series (despite what GR says) and at my rationed rate of 1 a month (otherwise I’d probably binge read and maybe even get fed up with them ), I have over 6 years to go, woo hoo !!

This was as excellent as all the previous novels, this time marvellously translated by Linda Asher.

Maigret has just returned to Paris after setting up the flying squad in Rennes when he is called in to investigate the (almost) murderous attack on a respected pillar of the Concarneau community.

More to follow tomorrow (when I’m not on my phone) , but this is a solid and eminently enjoyable 5 star read

This book is a marvellous example of Maigret's style, as he himself says, sometimes he allows things to happen, and sometimes he drives the action (these are my words précis-ing what Maigret explains to his junior officer). There are a number of red herrings, a number or people misrepresenting themselves and still Maigret cuts through to the solution of the case, showing his intelligence, his caring side and above all his perceptiveness.

As I said above this is a solid 5 star book for anyone who likes detective stories, it conjures up France in the 1930s and yet above all, it is timeless.
I am going to find it difficult not to choose my monthly Maigret as my favourite monthly book, we shall see....... ...more

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Jun 13, 2019 John rated it really liked it

Another great Maigret tinged with the mysterious yellow dog appearing when a crime occurs. Set in a French seaside town. A man leaves a cafe late in the evening on a rainy windy night and stops in a doorway and is shot in the stomach. Who shot him and why. Maigret is called in and while talking the friends of the victim a doctor notices their drinks are doctored which turns out to be strychnine.

Another of the friends disappear with their car bloodstained, footprints of a giant man are found, th ...more

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Mar 07, 2023 Leslie rated it really liked it

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2024 reread via full cast audiobook. This audiobook claims to be unabridged but as it is a dramatization, it wasn't the full book. Still quite enjoyable though. ...more

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Dec 19, 2015 Tony Fitzpatrick rated it liked it

Book number 6. This time Maigret is in Corncarneau, on the French coast, on some sort of secondment. An attempted murder, poisoning, small town squabbles, repeated appearances of a yellow haired dog, and an historical smuggling offence provide Maigret with a complex set of interrelated crimes to solve. In some ways it all comes to easy - he seems to have worked it all out in the first few chapters and then used the rest of the book to gather necessary supporting evidence. That made it a less int ...more

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