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The Hotel Majestic

by Georges Simenon · 1942

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Penguin delivers two more vintage Inspector Maigret novels by the legendary mystery authorIn The Hotel Majestic, Maigret investigates the murder of Mrs. Clark, the wife of a wealthy American industrialist, whose strangled body is found in the basement of an upscale hotel near the Champs-Elysees. Maigret's inquiries take him from the endless corridors of the Hotel Majestic to the countryside of the Bois de Boulogne and sun-drenched Cannes, into a world of prostitution, drug addiction, and blackmail.

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Audience
adult
Length
short · 176 pages

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