The Saint-Fiacre affair
By: Georges Simenon ; translated by Shaun Whiteside
Contributors: Whiteside, Shaun, translator
Series: Penguin classics
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780141394756
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Police; Fiction
Work titles: Messe de Saint-Fiacre
Description: Maigret's past comes to life in this vivid new translation of this evocative novel, set in the Inspector's home town. The last time Maigret went home to the village of his birth was for his father's funeral. Now an anonymous note predicting a crime during All Souls' Day mass draws him back there, where troubling memories resurface and hidden vices are revealed.
Notes: First published as La messe de Saint-Fiacre by Fayard, 1932.

Translated from the French.
Table of contents: title: The little cross-eyed girl; title: The missal; title: The alter boy; title: Marie Vassiliev; title: The second day; title: The two camps; title: Appointments in Moulins; title: An invitation to dinner; title: In the spirit of Walter Scott; title: The wake; title: The two-note whistle.