The recent lockdown has given me the opportunity to do lots of reading ... and George Simenon’s Maigret novels have featured heavily amongst the list of books I’ve been reading. So far, I have finished those shown in bold below:
- Pietr the Latvian
- The Late Monsieur Gallet
- The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
- The Carter of La Providence
- The Yellow Dog
- Night at the Crossroads
- A Crime in Holland
- The Grand Banks Cafe
- A Man's Head
- The Dancer at the Gai Moulin
- The Two-Penny Bar
- The Shadow Puppet
- The Saint-Fiacre Affair
- The Flemish Shop
- The Madman of Bergerac
- The Misty Harbour
- Liberty Bar
- Lock No. 1
- Maigret
- Cecile is Dead
- The Cellars of the Majestic
- The Judge's House
- Signed, Picpus
- Inspector Cadaver
- Félicie
- Maigret Gets Angry
- Maigret in New York
- Maigret's Holiday
- Maigret's Dead Man
- Maigret's First Case
- My Friend Maigret
- Maigret at the Coroner's
- Maigret and the Old Lady
- Madame Maigret's Friend
- Maigret's Memoirs
- Maigret at Picratt's
- Maigret Takes a Room
- Maigret and the Tall Woman
- Maigret, Lognon and the Gangsters
- Maigret's Revolver
- Maigret and the Man on the Bench
- Maigret is Afraid
- Maigret's Mistake
- Maigret Goes to School
- Maigret and the Dead Girl
- Maigret and the Minister
- Maigret and the Headless Corpse
- Maigret Sets a Trap
- Maigret's Failure
- Maigret Enjoys Himself
- Maigret Travels
- Maigret's Doubts
- Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses
- Maigret's Secret
- Maigret in Court
- Maigret and the Old People
- Maigret and the Lazy Burglar
- Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse
- Maigret and the Saturday Caller
- Maigret and the Tramp
- Maigret's Anger
- Maigret and the Ghost
- Maigret Defends Himself
- Maigret's Patience
- Maigret and the Nahour Case
- Maigret's Pickpocket
- Maigret Hesitates
- Maigret in Vichy
- Maigret's Childhood Friend
- Maigret and the Killer
- Maigret and the Wine Merchant
- Maigret's Madwoman
- Maigret and the Loner
- Maigret and the Informer
- Maigret and Monsieur Charles
- Maigret's Pipe
- Maigret's Christmas
- Seven Little Crosses in a Notebook
- The Little Restaurant in Les Ternes
I'm not reading them Bob, but I always have something playing on my Ipad when painting and currently listening my way through the Michael Gambon series. I find the scripts are good enough to enjoy with just the occasional glance up at the screen. I'm really enjoying them.
ReplyDelete'Lee,
DeleteThe Michael Gambon series was excellent, and I enjoyed watching them. I agree that you could easily follow the action without looking at the screen too often, although I tend to favour listening to audiobooks on DVD when I'm painting.
All the best,
Bob
Hi Bob
ReplyDeleteI am also an avid reader
I am reading four series, in sequence, alterntively
Jamer Patterson - Alex Cross series
Simon Scarrow - Eagle Series
Simon Scarrow - Napoleona and Wellington series
W E B Griffin - Corps series (WW2)
I have them loaded on my Kindle, and put the next volume of each series in a folder. That way I don't forget which book to read next. As you might expect, very organised. Some might say obsessive!
Enjoy your enforced leisure with reading and blogging
best regards
Paul
Thistlebarrow (Paul),
DeleteWhat an interesting selection of authors. For fiction, I tend to stick to a small range of authors:
* Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (mainly the Sherlock Holmes stories)
* Boris Akunin (the Erast Fandorin and Sister Pelagia books)
* Rudyard Kipling
* John Buchan (the Richard Hannay stories)
* Georges Simenon (the Maigret stories)
* Martin Cruz Smith (the Arkady Renko stories)
* George MacDonald Fraser (the Flashman stories)
* John Le Carre (the George Smiley stories in particular)
My books are also organised into folders ... and it isn’t obsessive, it’s being organised!
I look on the lockdown as an opportunity for me to do loads of things that I’d planned to do, including reading, painting, and designing/playing wargames.
Keep safe and keep well,
Bob
I was late to Maigret, but have just finished #13, and have #14 and #15 waiting to read... the books are wonderful... so evocative...
ReplyDeleteSteve-the-Wargamer,
DeleteWhat I like about the Maigret stories is the fact that they are not formulaic and they describe Paris as it was when the novels were being written. They also give a glimpse of the way that French society operated, and its foibles (e,g. A republic with an aristocracy and elite bureaucracy which expected deference shown to the).
Read and enjoy,
Bob