Liberty Bar (2015)
“The Dead Man and His Two Women It all began with a holiday feeling.
When Maigret stepped off the train, half of the railway station at Antibes was bathed in sunlight so intense that the people coming and going were reduced to shadows. Shadows in straw hats and white trousers, carrying tennis racquets. The air was humming. There were palm trees and cactuses along the quayside, a strip of blue sea beyond the street-lamps.
Someone was running to meet him.
‘Detective Chief Inspector Mai...gret, I believe? I recognized you from a photo that was in the papers … Inspector Boutigues …’ Boutigues! Even the name was comical!
Boutigues had already picked up Maigret’s suitcases and was dragging them towards the subway. He was wearing a pearl-grey suit with a red carnation in his buttonhole and shoes with fabric uppers.
‘Is this your first visit to Antibes?’ Maigret mopped his brow and tried to keep up with his cicerone as he threaded his way between the groups of people, overtaking everyone.MoreLess
When Maigret stepped off the train, half of the railway station at Antibes was bathed in sunlight so intense that the people coming and going were reduced to shadows. Shadows in straw hats and white trousers, carrying tennis racquets. The air was humming. There were palm trees and cactuses along the quayside, a strip of blue sea beyond the street-lamps.
Someone was running to meet him.
‘Detective Chief Inspector Mai...gret, I believe? I recognized you from a photo that was in the papers … Inspector Boutigues …’ Boutigues! Even the name was comical!
Boutigues had already picked up Maigret’s suitcases and was dragging them towards the subway. He was wearing a pearl-grey suit with a red carnation in his buttonhole and shoes with fabric uppers.
‘Is this your first visit to Antibes?’ Maigret mopped his brow and tried to keep up with his cicerone as he threaded his way between the groups of people, overtaking everyone.MoreLess
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