Tag: Georges Simenon

• Crime Ration with Maigret

  I’m not the greatest fan of crime fiction – I don’t like descriptions of blood and gore – but I do like the Maigretbooks, and you don’t often see them around, so I was delighted to pick up three in the last couple of weeks. First there was Maigret and the Idle burglar, which I…

  chrisharding53

  June 24, 2013

  detective novel, Georges Simenon, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Maigret

• Machines and Murder Mysteries

  Another trip to Paris in the company of Chief Superintendent Maigret and an English honeymoon with Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane offered unexpected reading joys when I popped into the library to take some books back. Having tried (and failed) to find anything by Georges Simenon (with the exception of The Hotel Majestic, reviewed…

  chrisharding53

  April 17, 2012

  Crime novels, Dorothy L Sayers, Georges Simenon, Harriet Vane, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Lord Peter Wimsey, Maigret

• Rediscovering Maigret

  Notre Dame, which has nothing to with the story, but last timeI went  to Paris we ate lunch in a cafe near Shakespeae and Companyand this was the view, and it makes me happy to look at it. Well, here I am, still in Paris, in spirit, if not in body – but it’s not…

  chrisharding53

  February 18, 2012

  Georges Simenon, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post, Maigret