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Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets

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Title:      Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets
Categories:      Maigret Series
BookID:      505
Authors:      Georges Simenon
ISBN-10(13):      9780140020250
Publisher:      Penguin Books
Publication date:      1963-11-30
Edition:      New impression
Number of pages:      128
Owner Email:      rnoggle1@gmail.com
Language:      English
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Maigret was in high spirits on a visit to Brussels. For fun he started to trail a down-at-heel man he had seen packeting up
thousand-franc notes and posting them as 'Printed Matter.' But the jaunt turned sour at Bremen, when the quarry took out a gun and
shot himself: and Maigret knew he was to blame. In the end it was in a crazy slum at Liege, Simenon's birthplace, that the inspector
heard a story so macabre, so sick, so sordid that it made remorse irrelevant.
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William Faulkner

William Faulkner

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading brings us unknown friends”

Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

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