Félicie

by Georges Simenon

ISNB: 978-0-241-18866-8

First published 1944

152 pages

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Cover photograph: Harry Gruyaert / Magnum Photos

4/5 Stars

Each Inspector Maigret story has its own idiosyncrasy, its own theme which runs through the short book. Is it summer? Is it in Paris? Is it set in the countryside? Here the ‘theme’ (if you can call it that) is a young lady, Félicie.

A young girl that gives Maigret the ‘run-around’. Knowing so much, acting up and acting down – tears and sobs but never revealing the whole story, or indeed any story, although it is her employer that has been shot dead.

Can Maigret ever make her talk?

What will it take for her to reveal all her secrets?