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Maigret and the Toy Village (Inspector Maigret, Bk 25)
Maigret and the Toy Village - Inspector Maigret, Bk 25 Author:Georges Simenon, Eileen Ellenbogen (Translator) Peg Leg Lapie, a crusty old sailor, is found mysteriously murdered in a most incongruous setting: a picturesque cottage near Paris, where he lived attended only by his young housekeeper, Felicie. But Lapie was not alone. Maigret, chief inspector of the Paris police, is sure of it. — A man at work in his garden, wearing clogs and a straw hat, does... more » not suddenly drop his tools to go indoors and fetch a bottle of brandy to drink alone in the summerhouse. There must have been another glass that someone removed. But Félicie, in her red hat trimmed with an iridescent feather, proves a champion adversary, as skilled in innuendo and evasion as Maigret is in deduction.« less