Contributions

  • Geoffrey Sainsbury - Translator

Publication

1991 - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, USA, California

Language

English

Translation of: La danseuse du Gai-Moulin

Word Count

41,500 words, Guess

Page Count

166 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads2904921
  • LibraryThing145936

Classifications

  • DDC843/.912
  • LCCPQ2637.I53 D313 1991
  • DDC843/.9/12
and 2 more
  • LCCPQ2637.I53 D3 1977
  • LCCPQ2637 I53 D3 1973

Alternate Titles

  • La danseuse du Gai-Moulin

Description

Crimson plush seats, wall mirrors, marble tables. The waiter nods, the band strikes up a jazz tune. A couple are dancing. Adele is trying to get a customer to drink. Welcome to the Gai-Moulin, a nightclub in Liege. At closing time, two teenagers wait on the basement steps in back to rob the place. But on their way to the bar, sneaking in the dark, they stumble upon a body. It's the foreigner, the one they saw talking with Adele earlier that evening. For the local police it is at first an open and that case. But then not so open and shut. New suspects appear, old ones disappear, and the body turns up at the Zoo, stuffed in a wicker basket. Into this puzzle steps Inspector Maigret of Paris, in one of the most dramatic entrances of his career.

First Sentence

"Who is he?"

Description

Two teenaged boys, bent on stealing money from the cash register after hours at the Gai-Moulin--a nightclub in Belgium--stumble upon a body, a discovery that has Inspector Maigret of Paris sorting through suspects.

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