Maigret on the defensive

148 pages

English language

Published April 10, 1981 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.

ISBN:
9780151555574

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Maigret is fifty-two, due for retirement in three years. His career has hardly been uneventful, his cases have been spectacular and followed avidly by the press and the public; his name has become a household word. Three more years, and he can retire, honoured and respected, to fish and cultivate his garden. At least that is what anyone would have thought until the Superintendent received a very peremptory summons to the Chief Commissioner's office. What he heard there, though, was more than enough to destroy his career and his reputation: an accusation that he had picked up a young girl in a bar, asked her to go with him on the pretext that he was on the tracks of a criminal and she would see some excitement, got her drunk in a series of night-clubs, and finally taken her to a hotel, undressed her and only did not seduce her …

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Subjects

  • Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
  • Police -- France -- Paris -- Fiction.