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When a school teacher from a small coastal town near La Rochelle asks Maigret to help prove he is innocent of murder, the Inspector returns with him to his insular community and finds the residents closing ranks to conceal the truth. What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he'd had the same feeling of helplessness or, rather, futility. He would find himself abruptly plunged into the lives of people he had never met before, and his job was to discover their most intimate secrets. This time, as it happened, it wasn't even his job. He was the one who had chosen to come, because a teacher had waited for him for hours in the Purgatory at the Police Judiciaire.… (más)
En Maigret va a la ecuela, un siceso escabroso sumerge al célebre comisario en el mundo de su infancia y en la hermética realidad que impregna la Francia rural. En este paisaje anclado en el tiempo, representado por la localidad costera de Saint-André-sur-Mer, el plácido devenir cotidiano se ve brutalmente perturbado por el asesinato de una de sus vecinas más odiadas. Perseguido por el anhelo constante de degustar unas ostras acompañadas por un vino blanco, Maigret tendrá que ir afinando su olfato. Porque sólo de su sagacidad y astucia depende que la verdad salga a la luz.
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Hi ha imatges que enregistrem inconscientmet, amb el detall d'una màquina de fotografiar, i que més tard, quan ens tornen a la memòria, ens obliguen a trencar-nos el cap per esbrinar on les hem vistes.
Some images you record unconsciously, with the precision of a camera, and when you find them later in your memory, sometimes you rack your brains to recall where you saw them.
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Més tard, no es va adonar que allò que es gronxava en la foscor, a la dreta, eren els pals dels vaixells i, a l'estació, va comprar un bon grapat de diaris de París.
A little later, he did not notice that what were swinging back and forth in the darkness, to his right, were the masts of boats, and at the station he bought a whole heap of Paris newspapers.
When a school teacher from a small coastal town near La Rochelle asks Maigret to help prove he is innocent of murder, the Inspector returns with him to his insular community and finds the residents closing ranks to conceal the truth. What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he'd had the same feeling of helplessness or, rather, futility. He would find himself abruptly plunged into the lives of people he had never met before, and his job was to discover their most intimate secrets. This time, as it happened, it wasn't even his job. He was the one who had chosen to come, because a teacher had waited for him for hours in the Purgatory at the Police Judiciaire.
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