Maigret and the Wine Merchant
by Georges Simenon
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Author: Georges SimenonTranslator: Eileen Ellenbogen
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-12
ISBN: 1579125794
Number of pages: 166
Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
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Book Review: "We are all to be pitied"
Summary: 5 Stars
The wine merchant is a bit of a monster. He thinks nothing of driving competitors out of business. He distrusts and underpays his employees. He sleeps with his wife's friends, his friends' wives and the whole secretarial pool. And when he makes love to his private secretary on the edge of his desk, he doesn't even lock the door.
If anyone deserves to be shot dead in the street, Oscar Chabut is the man.
The difficulty will be finding the killer among so many people who had reason to hate Chabut.
Maigret pities the murderer, and even has some pity to spare for the insecure rich man who invited his own death by humiliating one person too many. Nonetheless the Chief Superintendent does his job in a workmanlike fashion, as always.
The unprincipled character of Chabut is especially interested in the light of Simenon's own amorous misbehavior. Simenon might have used aspects of himself to create Chabut. And yet his sympathies are all with Maigret, the devoted husband and upholder of justice.
This is a first-rate Maigret.
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