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Maigret's First Case

Written by: Georges Simenon, Sian Reynolds - translator
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
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A sparkling new translation of this flashback to the start of Inspector Maigret's career, part of the new Penguin Maigret series.

The profession he had always yearned for did not actually exist...he imagined a cross between a doctor and a priest - a man capable of understanding another's destiny at first glance.

The very first investigation by eager young police secretary Jules Maigret leads him to a wealthy Paris family's dark secrets.

©2016 Georges Simenon (P)2016 Audible, Ltd
Mystery Suspense Crime Fiction Classics
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Classic Maigret

If you are a Maigret fan, this is at the beginning of his career. Good story, setting in motion some of the themes that will become Maigret mainstays, for example, Maigret vs the upper class. If you are new, detective work in this era is fascinating, without modern assistance such as forensics.

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