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Maigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice in book twenty-three of the new Penguin Maigret series. 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 heiress ... Maigret must make his way through a frustrating maze of clues, suspects and motives to find out what connects them. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as To Any Lengths and Maigret and the Fortuneteller. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent %%%Maigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice in book twenty-three of the new Penguin Maigret series. 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 heiress ... Maigret must make his way through a frustrating maze of clues, suspects and motives to find out what connects them. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as To Any Lengths and Maigret and the Fortuneteller. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent… (más)
Es uno de los Maigret más divertidos que recuerdo. Como un circo de tres pistas, lleno de trucos de magia (espejos incluidos), falsos culpables, culpables impunes, testigos de mentira y personajes falsos.
Llevado además a un ritmo endiablado, no te deja ni respirar.
Diría que muy recomendable, pero me doy cuenta de que siempre acabo diciendo lo mismo de los Maigret. Parece mentira que escribiera tantos, que los escribiera tan deprisa y que tuviera tantísimo tino para cada uno de ellos visto individualmente.
Un gris oficinista entrega a la Policía Judicial un papel que ha encontrado casualmente en un bar, con una extraña sentencia de muerte: Mañana, minutos después de las cinco de la tarde, mataré a la vidente. Firmado: Picpus. Maigret no puede evitar el homicidio. Pero el asesinato de la vidente no es más que el principio de uno de los casos más difíciles para el comisario.
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In the French original, Signé Picpus (1944, with earlier serial publication (December 1941-January 1942).
Variously published in English as: (i) To Any Lengths (1950) (trans. Geoffrey Sainsbury). The same translation was published as Maigret and Fortuneteller (1989) in the USA; (ii) Signed, Picpus (2015) (trans. David Coward).
Maigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice in book twenty-three of the new Penguin Maigret series. 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 heiress ... Maigret must make his way through a frustrating maze of clues, suspects and motives to find out what connects them. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as To Any Lengths and Maigret and the Fortuneteller. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent %%%Maigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice in book twenty-three of the new Penguin Maigret series. 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 heiress ... Maigret must make his way through a frustrating maze of clues, suspects and motives to find out what connects them. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as To Any Lengths and Maigret and the Fortuneteller. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent
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Es uno de los Maigret más divertidos que recuerdo. Como un circo de tres pistas, lleno de trucos de magia (espejos incluidos), falsos culpables, culpables impunes, testigos de mentira y personajes falsos.
Llevado además a un ritmo endiablado, no te deja ni respirar.
Diría que muy recomendable, pero me doy cuenta de que siempre acabo diciendo lo mismo de los Maigret. Parece mentira que escribiera tantos, que los escribiera tan deprisa y que tuviera tantísimo tino para cada uno de ellos visto individualmente.