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The Hotel Majestic
The wife of a wealthy American industrialist is found strangled in the basement of the Hotel Majestic. Maigret discovers her hidden past life as a nightclub hostess in Cannes and a world of prostitution, drug addiction and blackmail. Did someone from her dark past lure her to the basement?
Extract:
Why did it occur to Prosper Donge to open locker 89, which didn’t belong to anyone and was therefore not locked?
“It was automatic…” he said later. “The door was ajar… I didn’t think…”
In the locker was a body which had been pushed in upright and which had fallen over on itself. It was the body of a woman of about thirty, very blonde – peroxide blonde in fact – wearing a dress of fine black wool.
Review:
“I never found anything for that empty time of day or night until the first fine Simenon books came out”
-Ernest Hemingway
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