Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. When Maigret's holiday plans go awry he and his wife spend their vacation in Paris, on the condition that he has nothing to do with work.

The Yellow Dog sees Maigret upsetting the citizens of Concarneau as he begins his murder investigation. They revisit their old haunts, eat sausages and chips in riverside bistros, and nearly walk Madame's feet off up and down the quays. The stories are The Yellow Dog, Inspector Cadaver, Maigret's Little Joke and Maigret and the Burglar's Wife. I enjoyed the first half of the book more than the windup; it seemed the farther we went the worse the rendition got. Web icon An illustration of a computer application window Wayback Machine Texts icon An illustration of an open book.The dramas offer no introduction or background information on Maigret, so a listener unfamiliar with his stories may find the occasional focus on his foibles and mannerisms puzzling. How can he keep his promise to Mme Maigret and let Inspector Janvier get on with solving the crime when he is haunted by the question: why the devil was the murdered woman naked?

How can he keep his promise to Mme Maigret and let Inspector Janvier get on with solving the crime when he is haunted by the question: why was the murdered woman naked? We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. A full-cast dramatisation starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Inspector Maigret In 'Maigret's Little Joke', Maigret and his wife take a secret holiday in Paris. Dustwrapper bright and complete but sunned at spine with short closed tears to edges where spine folds at front and rear panels.

Georges Simenon's French detective has four more cases to solve in this these BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations. When a particularly sensational murder takes place in Paris, Chief Inspector Maigret is on holiday and must follow the investigation like any member of the public, through newspapers and news flashes. However, he and his wife decide to remain incognito in Paris and with the help of newspaper reports and radio broadcasts he is able to keep abreast of the crime.

Images Donate icon An illustration of a heart shape Donate Ellipses icon An illustration of text ellipses. Though the dead wife appears conservative and reserved, we learn she has a serious illness that could cause her to die at any time so has decided to live it up with (quiet, secret) affairs and wild living. Although Maigret's name appears in the titles of nearly all Georges Simenon's novels about the Inspector, this series usually amended the titles (or altered them completely) so as to leave his name out. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.Four full-cast dramatisations starring Nicholas Le Prevost as Inspector Maigret ‘The Yellow Dog’ sees Maigret upsetting the citizens of Concarneau as he begins his murder investigation. Patriciaenola wrote: "Anna dear your reviews are a damned good read sad to say I might have to read this "translation" to better appreciate that I might feel the French text through my fingers as I read = knowing you fe. Standing here at the window in the middle of the morning, vaguely observing the comings and goings in the street, he had a feeling that reminded of certain days in his childhood, when his mother was still alive and he was off school because he had the ‘flu or it was the end of term. Inspector Maigret is meant to be taking a holiday, but he can’t resist following the development of his colleague Janvier’s case in the papers – and playing a few tricks on the way.

A Maigret with a slight difference in that he is on holiday when a crime is committed and his deputy takes up the investigation.Dr Pardon has convinced M he needs a vacation, but when their plans go awry M decided to spend his two weeks off in Paris, enjoying himself with Mme M and totally avoiding the Quai des Orfèvres, where he had left Les Sables-d'Olonne as his forwarding address. The mysteries themselves are typical; selfish, smooth-tongued characters complicate the detective's investigations, which are eventually completed and then presented in the climactic scenes. Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belarus Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda Ukraine United Arab Emirates United Kingdom Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U. Unable to face the very idea of crowded seaside resorts in August, he and Madame decide to "steal" a vacation in their own nearly-empty city of Paris. He also got accosted by the fiancee of one of the possible suspects, and he therefore does a couple of surreptitious interviews, though trying to stay out of Lucas' way, as it is officially the new Inspector's responsibility.