BOOKS FROM BELGIUMPietr the Latvian
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“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré In Simenon’s iconic first novel featuring Inspector Maigret, the laconic detective is taken from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he traces a fraudster’s true identity Inspector Jules Maigret, a taciturn detective and commissaire of the Paris Brigade Criminelle, receives notice from Interpol that a notorious conman known only as Peitr the Latvian is en route to France. Armed with a broad description and a scant few clues, Maigret plans to intercept him at the train station outside Paris. But when he arrives, he finds that there are several suspects—some living, and some dead—who meet the description uncannily well. Who is Pietr the Latvian, truly? A vagrant, a seaman, a businessman, a corpse? Russian, Norwegian, American or Latvian? In Pietr the Latvian, the iconic first novel of Simenon’s classic series that made Inspector Maigret a legendary figure in the annals of detective fiction, Maigret must use his every instinct to unravel the mystery and track down the truth.
Reviews:
(4 months ago) |
15 May, 2025
Pietr the Latvian (Inspector Maigret #1) by Georges Simenon is the first in a long running series. This is the first book of them I've read but I going in I was somewhat familiar since I've watched the Rowan Atkinson tv series adaptation. Obviously, this is a bit different but I still enjoyed it getting the original intro to the classic detective. I'll definitely be reading book two in the future.
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