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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Maigret and the Wine Merchantby: Georges Simenon  Amazon.com's Price: $9.98 Prices subject to change.Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: HardcoverEAN: 9781579125790 ISBN: 1579125794 Label: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Manufacturer: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 166 Publication Date: 2005-12 Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Studio: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: While interrogating a penniless delinquent about a sordid crime, Maigret is called to the scene of an utterly different murder, one of the richest wine merchants in Paris is dead. "Georges Simenon's Chief Inspector Maigret belongs to the Paris of today as surely as Holmes did to gaslit London." (The New York Times) Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Perfectly Satisfying ReadFor any reader of Georges Simenon, Maigret and the Wine Merchant is a must. As always, the daily humdrum of Maigret's life is played out against a very sympathetic murderer - not a criminal - but someone whose desperation led him to his own catharsis. Great reading! Rating: - Another Droll and Very Good Maigret!You can tell this is a later Maigret, with references to TV, and certain flu rememdies, though Mrs. Maigret does prefer the old fashioned cures. Simenon rarely describes a crime in all its bloody detail, rather making the reader feel the circumstances behind the deed. Here the victim, a self- made wine merchant, elicits virtually no sympathy from anyone, and the cause turns out to be financial resentment and bullying, among the author's more common reasons for the crime. As usually, we get a fine ... Read More Rating:  - Another winner from the series As Inspector Maigret says himself, "I have never come across a more unsavory crowd than have turned up in this case!" And so it is in the tale of "Maigret and the Wine Merchant," the 70th of 75 full-length books in the detective series. And despicable the characters are too, from the victim -- the wine merchant who made it a point of bragging about sleeping with the wives of his employees -- to the killer and everyone else in their circle. It's musical beds and thievery and blackmail and the devil ... Read More Rating: - Classic Maigret Investigation. Good Blend of Police Routine and Astute PsychologyOscar Chabut was a self-made man, a wealthy wine merchant, that had many enemies. He was arrogant, domineering, and a philanderer. His attractive, sophisticated wife provides a long list of possible liaisons to Maigret for investigation. His employees and competitors were likewise possible suspects. His murder outside of an elegant house where discreet couples rented rooms in private had come as no surprise. A primary suspect emerges about midway in the story. Hereafter, Maigret plays a cat ... Read More 
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