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The Judge's House (Maigret, #21)

Georges Simenon,

Howard Curtis (Translator)

Start date: January 15, 2025

Finish date: February 8, 2025

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Nov 22, 2020 Adrian rated it really liked it

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Another wonderful Maigret novel. Not a 5 star episode but a great story none the less. For some reason, and we never find out, Maigret is banished from Paris for some misdemeanour, and finds himself in the provincial backwater of Lucon, accompanied by the ever supportive and ever patient Mme Maigret.
Whilst relaxing in a bar, an old woman asks to speak to Maigret by name and so begins an investigation into murder that Maigret could never have imagined. Dead bodies laying in place for days, chases ...more

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Apr 17, 2019 John rated it really liked it

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Another great story. Maigret is exiled to a remote French seaside town where a bizzare murder occurs. A retired judge tries to get rid of the body but a nosy parker sees it all and catches him after informing Maigret.

All is not what it seems. A crazy daughter, a not to bright lover and a quick tempered brother, Albert. Maigret is in his element and enjoying himself solving the murder. A few twists and surprises with the atmospheric seaside town with its mussels. The different characters are exc ...more

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Jun 21, 2017 John Frankham rated it it was amazing

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In a mussel-harvesting seaside village in the marshy Vendee in the atlantic south of France, Maigret is temporarily exiled after falling foul of police politics in Paris.

At the top of a ladder, pruning his hedge, a man sees a man (a body?) lying in a room in the Judge's house next door. It is still there the next day. Maigret is informed and is involved in a case involving adultery, madness, murder and deception, with its seeds going back many years.

A wonderful novel, with a real insight and exp ...more

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Dec 12, 2019 Francesca rated it really liked it

My first Simenon book and I have really enjoyed it. Both the characters and the story. I will read more by him.

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May 15, 2017 Tony Fitzpatrick rated it liked it · review of another edition

This was rather hard work. Maigret has been exiled to a sleepy French port - we have no idea why he is in disgrace (and apparently neither does Madam Maigret). A local busybody tells him that she has seen a body in the village "Judge's" house, and bored he goes to investigate. The Judge is caught red-handed trying to dispose of the body, and what then follows is a rather over complex tale involving mentally disturbed daughters, an ex-wife's infidelity, an old murder, jealous girlfriends, local g ...more

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