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When Maigret, exhaling tiredly, pushed the chair back, moving it away from the desk where he had been sitting with his elbows resting on it, exactly seventeen hours had passed since he began the interrogation of Karl Andersen. Seventeen hours of exhausting questioning! Before it started, they had removed the man's shoelaces, the false collar of his shirt, his tie, and emptied his pockets. And now it was they who were leaving!
Maigret, shrugging his shoulders, searched for a cold pipe in his drawer, wiping the sweat from his forehead. Perhaps what impressed him most was not the man's physical and mental resistance, but the incredible elegance, the noble demeanor he maintained until the end.
A crossroads in a desolate area, one or two hours from Paris. Two villas, a gas station, a car repair shop. Cars and trucks pass through the crossroads day and night, often carrying suspicious goods. And the murders, bizarrely staged, begin. The middle-aged Inspector Maigret makes his appearance in one of his first major cases.
A book written in April 1931, a landmark year for Simenon's literary debut with a series of masterpieces, among the best of his career. The book was made into a film by the renowned Jean Renoir of Rules of the Game and was released the following year. For Simenon, the actor Pierre Renoir was and would remain the best Inspector Maigret in cinema.
After a plethora of popular, romantic, and adventurous novels, which Simenon signed with fifteen different pseudonyms, the author comments on the period when he began signing his books with his official name: "I didn’t do it exactly out of desire and choice. I traveled for three years with my sailing boat, and when I returned, I gave form to the structure of the detective novels that I launched since then."
A small group had gathered in the garden: Maigret, Lucas, two policemen, who were looking at the insurance agent with the battered face and Else, who, as she spoke, tried to tidy up her appearance. It was difficult to explain why the whole scene didn’t seem tragic. Perhaps this undefined dawn played some role? Maybe the fatigue of each person, or even hunger?
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- Author
- Georges Simenon
- Publisher
- Agra
- Original Title
- La nuit du carrefour
- Type
- Crime
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 216
- Release Date
- 12/2021
- Publication Date
- 2021
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789605055080
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- Series
- Jules Maigret
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