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Maigret meets the train, sees Peter get off, and then is surprised to find there has been a murder on the train of a man who resembles Peter the Lett. We follow the case to the soggy port of Fécamp, where a drunken Russian named Swann is married to a young mother.
The first Maigret story. Darker than some of the later Simenon stories, with more of a sordidly naturalistic edge—Fécamp, port in Normandy, in November rain and rough seas; Jewish ghettoes in Paris, and the Hotel Majestic. Maigret involved with gangsters, and is wounded; his colleague, Brigadier Torrence, is murdered.
Sep 13, 2024 · The first novel to appear under his own name was Pietr-le-Letton (1929; The Strange Case of Peter the Lett), in which he introduced the imperturbable, pipe-smoking Parisian police inspector Jules Maigret to fiction. Simenon went on to write 83 more detective novels featuring Inspector Maigret, as well as 136 psychological novels.
The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (French: Pietr-le-Letton) is a 1931 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. It is the first novel to feature Inspector Jules Maigret who would later appear in more than a hundred stories by Simenon and who has become a legendary figure in the annals of detective fiction.
The Strange Case of Peter the Lett ; File:PietrLeLetton.jpg. First edition. Author: Georges Simenon: Original title: French: Pietr-le-Letton: Pietr-le-Letton
Aug 9, 2022 · The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (French: Pietr-le-Letton) is a 1931 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. It is the first novel to feature Inspector Jules Maigret who would later appear in more than a hundred stories by Simenon and who has become a legendary figure in the annals of detective fiction.
The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (French: Pietr-le-Letton) is a 1931 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. It is the first novel to feature Inspector Jules Maigret who would later appear in more than a hundred stories by Simenon and who has become a legendary figure in the annals of detective fiction.
