The Flemish House (Maigret #14) - Georges Simenon, torrent

Category: Detective, Mystery
Language: English
Keywords: Maigret
Written by Georges Simenon,
Format: MP3
Unabridged

Determined Anna Peeters, through sheer perseverance, gets Chief Inspector Jules Maigret to intercede in her family’s case. Located in Givet, a French seaport on the border with Belgium, the Peeters family runs a shop, the Épicerie Peeters (a.k.a. the Flemish House), on the French side of the border with Belgium, a large shop that caters to Belgian sailors who work on the barges that ply the River Meuse. Anna’s brother Joseph, a law student in Nancy 200 kilometers away, is believed to have fathered a child with a lower-class local lass named Germaine Piedboeuf; understandably for the time (the novel, first released in English in 1940 as The Flemish Shop), this bourgeois family insists that “it’s never been proved” and heap scorn on the girl — but, even so, they slip her a monthly maintenance of 100 francs for herself and JoJo, now two-and-a-half.