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The Methods of Maigretalso published asMy Friend MaigretMON AMI MAIGRETTHE 58TH EPISODE IN THE MAIGRET SAGA1949Georges SimenonTranslated from the French by Nigel RyanA 3S digital back-up edition 1.0click for scan notes and proofing historyContents |1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9|TRANSLATED BY NIGEL RYAN PUBLISHED FOR THE CRIME CLUB BY DOUBLEDAY &COMPANY, INC., GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK, 1957ALL THE CHARACTERS IN THIS BOOK ARE FICTITIOUS, AND ANY RESEMBLANCE TOACTUAL PERSONS, LIVING OR DEAD, IS PURELY COINCIDENTAL LIBRARY OF CONGRESSCATALOG CARD NUMBER 57'5525COPYRIGHT 1956 BY GEORGES SIMENON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THEUNITED STATES OF AMERICA
The Methods Of MaigretCHAPTER 1You were standing in the doorway of your club?”“Yes, officer.”It was no good remonstrating with him. Four or five times Maigret had tried tomake him say “Inspector.” What did it matter anyway? What did all this matter?“A gray sports car stopped for a moment and a man got out, with a flying leapalmost, that’s what you said, isn’t it?”“Yes, officer.”“To get into your club he must have passed close to you, and even brushedagainst you. Now there’s a luminous neon sign above the door.”“It’s purple, officer.”“So what?”“So nothing.”“Just because your sign is purple you are incapable of recognizing theindividual who, seconds later, tore aside the velvet curtain and emptied hisrevolver into your barman?”The man was called Caracci or Caraccini (Maigret was obliged to consult thedossier each time). He was small, with high heels, a Corsican head (they stillbear a faint resemblance to Napoleon), and he wore an enormous yellowdiamond on his finger.This had been going on since eight o’clock in the morning and it was nowstriking eleven. In actual fact it had been going on since the middle of the night,as all the people who had been rounded up at the club in Rue Fontaine where thebarman had been shot down had spent the night in the police station. Three orfour detectives, including Janvier and Torrence, had already been working onCaracci, or Caraccini, without getting anything out of him.It was May, but for all that the rain was falling as in the heaviest of autumn^ »
Page 4 and 5: downpours. It had been raining like
Page 6 and 7: mistaking the question in the Engli
Page 8 and 9: “Tell me Langlois… By the way,
Page 10 and 11: friends who is an expert on consump
Page 12 and 13: to be seen there. Everyone knows ev
Page 14 and 15: “I don’t know.”It was true. O
Page 16 and 17: CHAPTER 2« ^ »And so the first ro
Page 18 and 19: And off they went. The land was fla
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Page 22 and 23: “Where?”“To the water. Paul l
Page 24 and 25: is sixty-five. It appears she had h
Page 26 and 27: should have kept your letter, don
Page 28 and 29: Paul’s a good chap. But there’s
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Page 32 and 33: stayed, perhaps even wrote home for
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Page 40 and 41: “Of course.”“Were there other
Page 42 and 43: that it was all futile, that he oug
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Page 46 and 47: “What about?”“I know perfectl
Page 48 and 49: to her apron strings and that is wh
Page 50 and 51: “When?”“When Justine dies.”
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“You must do as you wish,” she
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be heard calling in the distance:
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one probably doesn’t come across
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CHAPTER 5« ^ »He had thought abou
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Marcellin ever happen to go up to s
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It is always ridiculous to play the
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could be heard. Only the movement o
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had only had occasion to visit Porq
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again the coughing sound which made
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imagined to be unique.“Won’t yo
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He understood now why Ginette had m
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This did not seem at all surprising
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bare toes and his hands, as nimble
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The page from the Grand Hotel was t
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“Including the big money?”“In
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“I would like you to try to remem
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“She hasn’t left me for a secon
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“Inspector Lucas. If he’s not t
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“Are you taking notes?” Mr. Pyk
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“ ‘Is that you?… it’s me…
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which she waited for several months
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working the slot machine while his
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“What are you thinking about?”
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Paris.”He didn’t trouble to ret
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It sometimes happened to him, espec
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An odd sort of job, his! He was onl
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Nothing else had happened. Charlot
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uncombed, his eyes still puffy with
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In the end there was a noise from t
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“And did Monsieur de Moricourt kn
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The latter still didn’t stir.“E
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“Nothing. I shall say nothing mor
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yacht as well as the North Star. I
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hanging in line at the Louvre or an
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Lunch had begun at the Arche. Jojo
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and they were handing a pair of bin
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