Guinguette by the Seine

Synopsis

The Two-Penny Bar (Fr. La Guinguette à deux sous, "the two-penny guinguette") is a 1932 detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Detective Chief Inspector Jules Maigret. Maigret visits a condemned man is prison who tells him that six years earlier he had witnessed a body being dumped it in the Canal Saint-Martin. Maigret's investigations bring him to a "two-penny bar" on the Seine at Morsang. A man is shot outside the bar and the suspect escapes police custody. Now Maigret has two deaths to investigate. He discovers a story of blackmail, adultery and financial ruin before the killers confess. The novel was first published in French in 1932. It has been translated into English twice and adapted for television twice.

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Details

Type

Book

Release date

January 1, 1931

Genres

crime fiction

Created by

Georges Simenon

Countries

Belgium