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title: "The Shadow Puppet (Inspector Maigret)"
brand: "georges simenon"
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# The Shadow Puppet (Inspector Maigret)

**Brand:** georges simenon
**Price:** ₱1540
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- **What is this?** The Shadow Puppet (Inspector Maigret) by georges simenon
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The Shadow Puppet (Inspector Maigret)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Maigret grows positively fond of the dead man
  

*by P***O on Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2015*

This novel exemplifies everything I love about Maigret – the way the huge burly inspector lurks in the vicinity of the crime absorbing impressions; his habit of hanging around and chatting aimlessly with potential suspects, casually cranking them up; his unexpected bursts of fondness or compassion for various characters...Maigret claims to have no method, yet his mere presence on the scene is a kind of method. It's great fun to watch him rattling a suspect with an expression of stupidity, an air of inattention, or a sudden roughness of manner. The unhurried pace of his investigation is always something to savor.In this story, he grows unaccountably fond of the victim, Monsieur Coucher, wealthy owner of a health serum company shot dead in the presence of his empty safe. The good-natured Coucher lived life to the full. He had three women in his life – an elegant upper-class wife, a bitter ex-wife, and a charming young mistress. Maigret gets to know them quite well.Simenon believed in writing novels that could be read in a day. The Shadow Puppet is certainly short and concise – not a word wasted – yet so dense with suggestive psychological undercurrents and unsettling atmosphere that it's totally satisfying and feels like it's taking place in real time.I thought I'd read every Maigret novel available in English, but this one was new to me. I loved every minute of it.  Although The Shadow a Puppet is an early Maigret, published in France in 1932, it already exhibits the understated wit, psychological nuances and haiku-like descriptions found in Simenon's best mysteries. The translation, I believe, successfully captures Simenon's inimitable style.

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    Good Old Couchet
  

*by C***A on Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2017*

Maigret finds himself liking a murdered man that he never met while he looks for his murderer among 28 residents of what an American would call an apartment complex. This Simenon novel has especially strong character portraits of sad and nasty people.

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    Not his best
  

*by K***T on Reviewed in the United States on September 2, 2016*

No the best in the series. A bit lazy and characters are confusing and poorly drawn by the master. Place it in the lower third of his panthion.

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