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TROPIC MOON-Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Man in trhe Moon | 1/18/1943 | See Source »

MAIGRET SITS IT OUT-Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace ($2). The phlegmatic French detective moves through two stories of murder among pre-war Paris' underworld and petite bourgeoisie. Excellent as quivering slices of lowlife, and as studies in psychology. The detecting is typical Maigret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in January, Feb. 2, 1942 | 2/2/1942 | See Source »

MAIGRET KEEPS A RENDEZVOUS-Georges Simenon-Harcourt ($2). Two first-class exploits of phlegmatic French Detective Maigret: One is the case of a Breton sea captain, slain after a frenzied voyage, which Maigret closes on an extra-legal note; the other a rural tragedy, involving the death of an elderly countess by induced shock. Translation not so smooth as earlier Simenon but both tales have brilliant workmanship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in August | 9/1/1941 | See Source »

MAIGRET TRAVELS SOUTH - Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murders in May | 6/3/1940 | See Source »

...PATIENCE OF MAIGRET-Georges Simenon-Harcourt, Brace ($2). Two novelettes by a fantastic Frenchman. Inspector Maigret waits while subordinates make the hue and brass hats foam and fret. And presently the guillotine snicks a cervix or Devil's Island claims another Gaul...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Murder in February | 3/4/1940 | See Source »

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