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Signed, Picpus aka To Any Lengths/Maigret and the Fortune Teller by Georges Simenon (Maigret #23) (May/June 25)
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Signed, Picpus aka To Any Lengths/Maigret and the Fortune Teller - SPOILER Thread - (Maigret #23) (May/June 25)
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Lunchtime listen December 2024
Can’t really say anymore than I said below, when I read the (physical) book. Oh I could add, brilliantly read by Gareth Armstrong, as it was !
As hoc series read 2020
Woah, that was good. More to follow.
This book starts with a nervous young man informing the French police that he has just found on a cafe blotter, a warning that a clairvoyant will be murdered at 5:00p.m. today.
Enter Maigret. With people in every district on the look out he sits near the telephone exc ...more
Can’t really say anymore than I said below, when I read the (physical) book. Oh I could add, brilliantly read by Gareth Armstrong, as it was !
As hoc series read 2020
Woah, that was good. More to follow.
This book starts with a nervous young man informing the French police that he has just found on a cafe blotter, a warning that a clairvoyant will be murdered at 5:00p.m. today.
Enter Maigret. With people in every district on the look out he sits near the telephone exc ...more
For once, too much complicated puzzle, and not enough local colour and depth of characters. So, only 4*!
"A small, thin man, rather dull to look at, neither young nor old, exuding the stale smell of a bachelor who does not look after himself. He pulls his fingers and cracks his knuckles and tells his tale the way a schoolboy recites his lesson.
A mysterious note predicting the murder of a fortune-teller; a confused old man locked in a Paris apartment; a financier who goes fishing; a South American ...more
"A small, thin man, rather dull to look at, neither young nor old, exuding the stale smell of a bachelor who does not look after himself. He pulls his fingers and cracks his knuckles and tells his tale the way a schoolboy recites his lesson.
A mysterious note predicting the murder of a fortune-teller; a confused old man locked in a Paris apartment; a financier who goes fishing; a South American ...more
Maigret is given a tip off that a "Fortune Teller" will be murdered at 5pm. He arranges for all the known clairvoyants in Paris to be watched, but the murder occurs on a woman not known to the police. He investigates the crime in his own inimitable style, but with many and various complex emotions around the leading characters. He is annoyed, impatient, exasperated, and elated in equal measure. As usual he is terribly rude and keeps people waiting for hours at various points of the investigation
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Oct 29, 2015
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A note is found that states a fortune teller will be killed on a specific date and signed by "Picpus." This lands on the desk of Inspector Maigret who is responsible for, much to the amusement of the rest of the police department, taking steps are taken to watch local fortune tellers - without success. A fortune teller is killed. The investigation pulls together a seemingly disparate group of suspects, the investigation is successful, but the outcome leaves Maigret far from satisfied and heading
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Lost me a bit at the end but otherwise this is a pretty perfect investigative crime story, pared down to the bare essentials. As always it's such a pleasure to stomp around Paris in the rain with Maigret while he eats, smokes his pipe, and drinks so much beer. It's obvious Simenon knew these neighborhoods backwards and forwards, and the setting as always is so welcoming and enjoyable to read about.
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May 19, 2025
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Excellent. Many different plot points that seem to have nothing to do with each other, but Maigret connections the dots and does it in a timely fashion.
Jun 10, 2013
Erik Laiho
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Oct 30, 2015
Jan C
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Jul 21, 2019
Laurel
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May 12, 2020
Miss M
marked it as second-in-line
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Jun 06, 2023
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