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Lock No. 1

By: Georges Semenon, David Bellos (Translator)
Narrated by: Gareth Armstrong
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Summary

A new translation of Georges Simenon's novel set in a claustrophobic provincial town.

Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realized that they were not important. Whatever roared by like this along the road was not part of the landscape.

What really counted was the lock, the hooting of the tugs, the stone crusher, the barges and the cranes, the two pilots' bars, and especially the tall house where he could make out Ducrau's red chair framed by a window. This novel has been published in a previous translation as The Lock at Charenton.

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
©2015 Georges Simenon (P)2015 Audible, Ltd
Classics Crime Fiction International Mystery & Crime Suspense Fiction Transportation Mystery
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Minimalist to the point of nothing

Nothing much happens in this story.
Maigret barely says anything but when he does in the first half, the narrator can’t seem to find his “Maigret voice”. So it sounds strange.
There is also an obvious editing mistake about three quarters in, when two lines of dialogue are repeated. However this mistake is not unique to this recording. I have come across such artefacts in several audiobooks.
Overall, not an interesting Maigret episode.
Perhaps skip this one. There are many much more interesting Maigret stories.

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