Maigret and the Informer

Inspector Maigret, Book 74

By: Georges Simenon

Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong

'You see, I mainly work at night. I've ended up getting to know everybody. They're used to me in Pigalle, I exchange a few words with this person or that person. I go into the bars and cabarets where they give me a quarter bottle of Vichy without waiting for me to order anything.'

An anonymous tip-off regarding the death of a restaurant owner sends Maigret into the world of Parisian nightlife, a notorious criminal gang and a man known as 'the Flea'.

This novel has been pubished in a previous translation as Maigret and the Flea.

©1973 Georges Simenon (P)2021 Audible, Ltd

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (1903 – 1989)

Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (1903 – 1989) was a Belgian writer who claimed to have slept with 10,000 women in his search for "la femme." His literary output was nearly as prolific yet always quite good.

Simenon does it again.

One of the best Maigrets. Although predictable, the author makes certain that it’s exiting to the end.
And, of course, Gareth is, predictably, among the top 3 performing artists.