Maigret in Holland
By: Georges Simenon ; translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Harcourt Brace
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York, USA
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Translation of: Un crime en Hollande
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 165
Copyright date: 1940
Subjects: Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.; Police -- Netherlands -- Fiction.
Description: "Inspector Maigret arrives in the prim, toylike town of Delfzijl to investigate the murder of Conrad Popinga, a teacher.".

"Almost immediately the French sleuth is presented the floor plans of the victim's house and shown two clues: a sailor's cap in the bathtub and a Manila cigar butt on the dining-room carpet. The suspects: a strapping, giggling farmer's daughter with an interest in men; an angry, flat-chested woman lawyer; a larcenous ship owner; a young and unaccountably frightened cadet; and a pompous criminologist who was found holding a revolver at the scene of the crime.".

"Maigret, meanwhile, is preoccupied with the path nearby, which at night is lit every fifteen seconds by a lighthouse beam. A spot where lovers might be discovered ..." "Simenon tells the absorbing story of people of human appetites and vitality who are put in the straitjacket of small town respectability - until they can no longer stand it. Vintage Simenon."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book."