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"An anonymous note to the police reports that a body has been burnt in the furnace of the bookbinder, Frans Steuvels, on the Rue de Turenne. Preliminary investigations turn up suspicious details, and two human teeth are found in the furnace, of a man who'd been alive not long before. Steuvels is held in custody. Meanwhile Mrs. Maigret has had a strange experience while waiting for her dentist appointment. A woman she had often met on the bench while waiting, with a young child, suddenly leaves the child in Mrs. Maigret's care and disappears for over an hour, returning to take the child and disappearing without explanation.
By coincidence, it seems the two cases are related. A woman matching her description had been seen in Steuvels' wife Fernande Steuvels' hometown, and probably sent the telegram which lured her away the day of the alleged crime. Maigret discovers that one of the men with the woman was Steuvels' brother, Alfred Moss, and Mrs. Maigret discovers that the hat had been bought by the elderly Countess Panetti, who has also disappeared. The woman fits the description of her maid, Gloria Lotti. Maigret finds the house where Moss had been living, and realized that Moss had seen a magazine with Mrs. Maigret's picture in it on the day everyone disappeared. Moss had gotten his brother involved in a passport forging scheme, and they'd met every week when Fernande was doing the laundry. Countess Panetti had been murdered for her jewels, and the man in the furnace had been her ex-son-in-law, Krynker, killed by the gang's boss, known as Schwartz, at Steuvels' house.
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Dana Samson, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 40%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 10%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 10%
Tone of story
- Dry-cynical
How difficult to spot villain?
- Very obvious
Time/era of story:
- 1960's-1970's
What % of story relates directly
to the mystery, not the subplot?
- nearly 100%
Kind of investigator
- police procedural, Foreign
Kid or adult book?
- Adult or Young Adult Book
Crime Thriller
Yes
Murder Mystery (killer unknown)
Yes
Main Character
Gender
- Male
Profession/status:
- police/lawman
Age:
- 40's-50's
How much violence does he/she use?
- a little
Ethnicity/Race
- French
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Genius (really!)
Physique
- healthy but a geeky weakling
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- a little/some
Motive of antagonist
- money/treasure
The antagonists are:
- gangs
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- France
Style
Part of a series?
Yes
Person
- mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
How many deaths?
- 2
Amount of dialog
- significantly more descript than dialog
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