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Yellow Dog
Yellow Dog | Georges Simenon
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"A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason." --John Le Carr A gripping mystery from Georges Simenon in which Inspector Maigret must go up against small town suspicion--and revenge In a small, seaside town in the northwest of France, the local wine dealer is wounded by a gunshot while retuning home drunk from a hotel bar. Maigret, who is heading up a mobile squad of the Paris police force, is called in by the mayor to solve the crime. But upon settling down in the hotel, Maigret quickly discovers a curious cast of characters awaits him there--and they all have something to hide. In the course of this strange case, a customs official is shot, a retired journalist is lost and found, and a vagrant is attested, but through it all Maigret has his sights set firmly in the direction of the truth, even as a strange yellow dog haunts the neighborhood. Fast-paced and wholly unpredictable, The Yellow Dog is a sharp mystery set against the cutthroat backdrop of small town politics.
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Bookwomble
Yellow Dog | Georges Simenon
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Well, it's hardly the Hound of the Baskervilles, but the eponymous yellow dog of the story is considered a harbinger of ill fortune by the Breton townsfolk of Concarneau: a relative of the folkloric hellhounds of Britanno-Celtic legend.
Maigret is on one of his many secondments to Brittany, and also in one of his most quixotic moods, presenting himself as bumbling, unconcerned and obtuse, all the while unerringly closing in on his suspects 4⭐

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Andrew65
The Yellow Dog | Georges Simenon
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Book 6 in the Maigret Series. Written almost 100 years ago and they were much shorter books, but I really do enjoy these books. #Classics

9th book finished for #SummerEndReadathon #SeriesLove2023 @TheSpineView
#Rushathon @DieAReader @Ghabi4Roses

TheSpineView Excellent!🤩📖📚 1y
DieAReader 🥳🥳🥳 1y
kwmg40 I'm enjoying the Maigret books too. I've been trying to read them in French. It's a bit challenging for me, especially when Simenon uses slang that was commonplace 90 years ago. 😅 1y
Andrew65 @kwmg40 Impressive! That would add an extra challenge 😳 1y
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kwmg40
Maigret and the Yellow Dog | Georges Simenon
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This Maigret story about a series of frightening events in a French seaside town seemed slow and meandering to me, but everything did come together in a complex and surprising way at the end.

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#20in4 #SeriesLove2023
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TheSpineView Great job! 2y
TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y
Andrew65 Usual enjoy these but definitely have a different pace. Well done 👏👏👏 2y
kwmg40 @TheSpineView @TheAromaofBooks Thanks for the encouragement! 2y
kwmg40 @Andrew65 Simenon wrote so many Maigret mysteries that I guess at least a few of them will be duds, but overall, I love the series. 2y
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kspenmoll
Maigret and the Yellow Dog | Georges Simenon
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There is no way I would ever has guessed “whodunit” in this tale of secrets and lies. Superintendent Maigret‘s deductive powers, observational skills, and his uncanny ability to ferret out the truth,are a marvel.Because Maigret keeps his conclusions close to the vest,I was in a constant state of anticipation about the next steps in this intricate plot.

Dragon I used to read my grandma‘s mystery novels as a kid-Maigret - Travis McGee- Nero Wolfe ( Archie and his typewriter) etc …thanks for reminding me 💚🐉 2y
batsy I've always wanted to read the Maigret books but keep getting distracted by other books! Sounds like my cup of tea. 2y
kspenmoll @Dragon @batsy I love his character! Nero Wolfe- have to read some more of him. 2y
Dragon Me too 👍 2y
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kspenmoll
Maigret and the Yellow Dog | Georges Simenon
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I have not read a book of his in a long time. This library find has me going in circles; I really have no clue what is going on. Several unexplained murders in a small village totally changes its tone from one of friendliness and trust to one of fear and suspicion. #porchlife #Simenon

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MichaelGoertzen
Maigret and the Yellow Dog | Georges Simenon
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Overall, I enjoyed it, but I especially relished an atmospheric nighttime stakeout on a Concarneau rooftop when Maigret from his position observes across an alley two of his main suspects in silent interaction. It involves a chicken.