The Hanged Man Of Saint-Pholien

Description

First published as *Le Pendu de St Pholien*, this early Simenon records how Maigret unwittingly drove a little man to suicide. You'd have said that Louis Jeunet was a down-at-heel layabout, but he was packeting up over 30,000 francs when Maigret first spotted him in Brussels. When he posted the money, unregistered, as 'Printed Matter', Maigret followed him for fun. He took a train for the north. At the German frontier Maigret switched suitcases, in a spirit of idle curiosity, but when Jeunet discovered his loss at Bremen he took out a gun and shot himself, and Maigret was left to cope with his own culpability. His subsequent inquiries provoked two attempts on his life and eventually led to Liege, Simenon's birthplace, where in a crazy slum he taps the source of a macabre story which is reminiscent of Francois Villon.

Description

Book four of the Inspector Maigret series. On a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly causes a man's suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself.

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Other Editions

• The Hanged Man Of Saint-PholienPenguin Books Ltd2014-01-01
• Le pendu de Saint-Pholien.Librarie Artheme Fayard1931-01-01
• Maigret and the hundred gibbetsPaoerbackPenguin1963-01-01
• Maigret and the hundred gibbetsPaperbackPenguin Books Ltd.1963-01-01
• Maigret et le pendu de Saint-PholienMacmillan1966-01-01
• Le pendu de St.-PholienPresses Pocket1977-01-01