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Well in many ways, I have to agree with my original review of the book below, it is a story in which Maigret doesn’t really take a leading role in the solving or final stages of this mystery.
The newly “crowned” Count of St Fiacre does most of the interviewing at a final dinner party where all the suspects are present and the Count’s late mother is laying out for the benefit of the locals in the bedroom above. Completely broke and a bit of a scoundrel, Maigret initia ...more
Well in many ways, I have to agree with my original review of the book below, it is a story in which Maigret doesn’t really take a leading role in the solving or final stages of this mystery.
The newly “crowned” Count of St Fiacre does most of the interviewing at a final dinner party where all the suspects are present and the Count’s late mother is laying out for the benefit of the locals in the bedroom above. Completely broke and a bit of a scoundrel, Maigret initia ...more
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In The Saint-Fiacre Affair, Inspector Maigret finds himself back in his hometown, having been in receipt of the following message: A crime will be committed ,,,during first mass .... There an old countess, whose family had long held sway over the town, has died in the pews of the local church under seemingly mysterious circumstances. Her death brings back into town her son, Maurice de Saint-Fiacre, who had lived a dissolute life in Paris with his mistress.
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The story reveals a cast of characters, ...more
One of my favourite Maigrets. He back in his home village (where his father was estate manager for decades) for only the second time in 30 years, after a warning that a crime will be committed at the first Mass on all-saints' day. The picture created of the isolated village in winter, the insulated villagers, and the primitive life-style, is memorable. As well as the murder in church, and the case to be solved ....
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Maigret goes back to the place of his childhood to find his old familiar home become mishappen and unrecognizable by murder, blackmail, threats and fraud, OR so he thought! Its only in the post-climactic scene when sipping Calvados, he realises that much water has passed through his familiar childhood haunts, and people have changed in their own indeterminate ways that he can recognise his home anymore! And that speaks volumes, in my opinion.
My Rating - 4/5
My Rating - 4/5
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Maybe even more atmospheric than other Maigret's and with a strange ending. Enjoyable evening's read.
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Maigret returns to his boyhood town on a tip off that a crime will be committed during first Mass one Sunday morning. The local Countess dies at the end of the service, a heart attack brought on by a nasty printed note containing a revelation, which has been slipped into her missal. Maigret tries to get to the bottom of the mystery, and finds himself having to deal with impecunious sons, toy boys, lawyers, crooked estate managers, and corrupted altar boys. Unusual in that Maigret is rarely on to
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Police, having received a short anomalous note warning of a crime which will be committed at a certain place, and at a certain time, tended to ignore it. Maigret having seen the note and that the place indicated is where he grew up, decides to follow it up. He attends the church stated at the given time and waits and watches. It is not until the sermon is over, that a woman there has died while Maigret looked on. The woman is the Countess of St Fiacre, who was the person his father served when M
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Inspector Maigret returns to the village where he was born. His father had worked as estate manager for Madame la Comtesse at Comte de Saint-Fiacre. He is drawn back to his home village after receiving a note that someone will die in mass. And, indeed, Madame la Comtesse is discovered dead in her pew having died of a heart attack. But how could someone have predicted this? Is it murder?
Le meilleur de Maigret, même s'il n'est pas "l'Inspecteur" ou "Commissaire" ici, mais le fils du régisseur des Saint–Fiacre. A la recherche du temps perdu, écrit par Simenon.
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