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The Yellow Dog
On a stormy evening in the coastal town of Concarneau, a local wine-merchant is shot dead, leaving the Admiral Hotel. One by one the town begins to panic as Concarneau’s prominent citizens are attacked and Maigret is called in to solve the crime. What connects the victims? What is Emma, the hotel waitress, hiding? What is the significance of the mysterious yellow dog lurking around the town?
Extract:
Maigret had never seen the pale shadow of fear spread so swiftly. In seconds, all the warmth had drained from people’s expressions, and the rosy blotches on Le Pommeret’s cheeks looked artificial.
The waitress leaned an elbow on the till and licked a pencil before setting down some figures in a black oilcloth-covered account book.
“You’re crazy!” Servières exclaimed with some effort.
It rang false. The pharmacist held the bottle in one hand, a glass in the other.
“Strychnine” whispered the doctor.
Reviews:
The Yellow Dog is a great novel. It would be great even without Maigret. You could read it just for the evocation of Concarneau.
-Richard Vinen
“A truly wonderful writer… marvellously readable – lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with that world he creates.”
-Muriel Spark
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