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The Misty Harbour (Maigret, #12)

Georges Simenon

Start date: January 15, 2024

Finish date: February 6, 2024

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Apr 16, 2020 Adrian rated it really liked it

Shelves: det-georges-simenon, zz-paper-books, zz-audiobook

March 2023 Lunchtime Listen

Ok, I know its only 3 + years since I read this, but until we were about half way through I didn't actually remember much of this mystery at all. And yet I really enjoyed this novel, one of the better Maigret's, and as ever excellently read by Gareth Armstrong.
In this novel Maigret discovers the identity of a recovering from serious injury, mute man found wandering in Paris and having escorted him home is shocked when he is murdered the next day. Maigret starts to get ...more

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Aug 23, 2016 John rated it liked it

Shelves: detective, georges-simenon

Enjoyed the plot.

A man with amnesia with a head wound from a gunshot is found wandering around Paris and will not speak He is is identified as the harbor-master of Ouistreham, Capt. Yves Joris. His house-keeper, Julie Legrand, comes to Paris and takes him back to Ouistreham.

Amongst his papers is a bank statement showing a deposit of that 300,000 francs. On his return the next morning Capt. Joris is found dead, poisoned.

Julie's brother, Big Louis, is an ex-con seaman who works on the Saint-Mic ...more

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Jan 09, 2017 John Frankham rated it it was amazing

Shelves: crime-detective

A good Maigret, one of a number where Simenon shows his love and knowledge of the closed communities in river, canal and sea locations. In this case a tidal port, from where ships go to England and the Baltic, where the harbour-master disappears, presumed drowned, then reappears elsewhere, unable to speak, with a well-healed bullet wound in the head. Maigret takes him and his housekeeper back to the harbour to investigate. But nobody will speak up - at first, until Maigret wheedles confidences a ...more

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Jan 09, 2024 Jill rated it it was amazing

Shelves: georges-simenon

This starts on a train where Maigret is taking two people to their home. The man is a person who was found wandering around in Paris. It appears that this man had been shot in the head, but had,had medical attention, and although his life had been saved, he had no recollection of who he was,or what had happened to him. His photo had been put into newspapers, asking if any one could recognise him. Eventually, a woman had said he was the person who she working for as a housekeeper, so the three of ...more

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Feb 01, 2017 Tony Fitzpatrick rated it really liked it · review of another edition

There are for each of these books alternative titles. For this one it is "Death of the Harbour master" which is not very imaginative and kind of spoils the plot. In this story, Maigret is almost caught out by a conspiracy of silence amongst the key players - and having exceeded his authority is seriously worried and frustrated by the situation. Of course he manges to solve it all, although he benefits from some extraordinary luck. The plot is fairly simple - harbour master of small port near Cae ...more

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Jul 31, 2015 Nanosynergy rated it liked it

Shelves: mysteries-thrillers-espionage, france, 2015read, translated, fiction, fiction-1930s, reviewed

A man is found in Paris, unable to speak with a healed bullet wound in his head and nothing to identify him on his person. It is eventually determined he is from a quaint, small harbor town. Inspector Maigret goes there with the man to solve what happened, but when the man is murdered in his own home upon returning, Maigret is doggedly determined to solve the puzzle.

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Jan 18, 2024 Sandy rated it really liked it

Shelves: mystery-detective-grp

Simenon is a master at creating an atmosphere and he is at his best here. The fog is tangible, the characters are uncooperative, and mystery is intriguing.

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