Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Maigret Sets a Trap by Georges Simenon Maigret Sets a Trap. It is a hot and steamy summer, and Maigret is hatching a plan to capture a serial murderer by playing on the killer's perverse vanity. He finally succeeds when an important clue leads him to a trio of suspects. But the three are entangled in a web of guilt and possessiveness so tight that the unraveling nearly exhausts the Inspector--until, at last, he discovers the tortur It is a hot and steamy summer, and Maigret is hatching a plan to capture a serial murderer by playing on the killer's perverse vanity. He finally succeeds when an important clue leads him to a trio of suspects. But the three are entangled in a web of guilt and possessiveness so tight that the unraveling nearly exhausts the Inspector--until, at last, he discovers the tortured motives behind the murders. Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon. . more. Get A Copy. Friend Reviews. Reader Q&A. Be the first to ask a question about Maigret Sets a Trap. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Simenon is all about character. This doesn’t mean that in his police procedurals involving Chief Inspector Maigret there is no mystery, but plot is subservient to character. Those stories (novels and shorter works), including this one, are all told in the third person but almost entirely from Maigret’s perspective. His methodology is always to attempt to put himself inside the mind of the criminal and then identify the person whose mind go he now knows. Nowhere is this more evident than in Maig Simenon is all about character. This doesn’t mean that in his police procedurals involving Chief Inspector Maigret there is no mystery, but plot is subservient to character. Those stories (novels and shorter works), including this one, are all told in the third person but almost entirely from Maigret’s perspective. His methodology is always to attempt to put himself inside the mind of the criminal and then identify the person whose mind go he now knows. Nowhere is this more evident than in Maigret Sets a Trap where, mostly by accident, he gets to sit down with a psychiatrist and explore possibilities within the criminal mind that involve a string of unsolved murders of women. Here we get Simenon’s interest in and understand of the criminal mind. He deftly mixes issues of justice and law with psychology and human nature. And, as he does in so many of his works, he considers what it means to be human. "When did you discover you were not like other people?" The man's face quivered, but he manage to say with a derisive titter: "You find I'm not like other people?" "When you were a young man. " "Well, what?" "Did you know already?" Maigret had a feeling, at that moment, that if he could find exactly the right words, the barrier between himself and the man sitting stiffly in his chair on the other side of the desk would be broken down." The pace is a bit faster than some of the other “Maigrets” and I found it a struggle to put the book down for any of my other responsibilities. This is a great one and a “must read” for anyone who values Simenon or loves Inspector Maigret. My thanks to GR friends Jim Fonseca for his review reminding me to “re-invest” in this novel and Jan-Maat for cheering me on. . more. There is a serial killer in the Montmartre area of Paris. It is a hot and stifling August and a woman a month has been stabbed on the street since February. The police have no leads, and Maigret worries there will be another, and soon, if he doesn't do something. How do you go about looking for someone who kills entirely randomly? There is an element of the thriller in this one. For me, the most interesting part of this was when Maigret has an opportunity to talk with a psychiatrist, informally, There is a serial killer in the Montmartre area of Paris. It is a hot and stifling August and a woman a month has been stabbed on the street since February. The police have no leads, and Maigret worries there will be another, and soon, if he doesn't do something. How do you go about looking for someone who kills entirely randomly? There is an element of the thriller in this one. For me, the most interesting part of this was when Maigret has an opportunity to talk with a psychiatrist, informally, when he has been invited to dinner at a friend's. This title, originally published in 1955, provided an insight to the early days of criminal profiling. Though in no way as dark as his standalone novels, to me it is obviously Maigret comes from the same authorial thinking. I cannot account for my being drawn to such as I avoid horror. What I have read of that genre stepped over the line into non-believability, where Simenon is entirely believable. I picked this up when it was on sale, and will continue to snap him up when I have such an opportunity. I liked this better than many of the noir/mystery genre and happily mark it 4-stars. . more. Dramatisation with Denholm Elliott. WL The Man Who Watched Trains Go By 3* Maigret in Society 3* The Blue Room WL My Friend Maigret (Maigret #31) 3* The Saint-Fiacre Affair 3* Maigret in Montmartre 3* Maigret Has Scruples 3* Maigret Bides His Time 3* Striptease 3* Maigret Sets A Trap. Dramatisation with Denholm Elliott. WL The Man Who Watched Trains Go By 3* Maigret in Society 3* The Blue Room WL My Friend Maigret (Maigret #31) 3* The Saint-Fiacre Affair 3* Maigret in Montmartre 3* Maigret Has Scruples 3* Maigret Bides His Time 3* Striptease 3* Maigret Sets A Trap . more. My fun weekend read. I gobble Maigret mysteries up like a bowl of chocolate. This mystery is about a serial killer. Someone is killing women in Montmartre. All the victims are found on the street, stabbed, with their clothes slashed. They have not been sexually assaulted or robbed. The woman have nothing in common, one is a prostitute, one a housewife and one a professional. They are murdered around the same time at night in the same neighborhood. Who is doing it and why? The story largely circles My fun weekend read. I gobble Maigret mysteries up like a bowl of chocolate. This mystery is about a serial killer. Someone is killing women in Montmartre. All the victims are found on the street, stabbed, with their clothes slashed. They have not been sexually assaulted or robbed. The woman have nothing in common, one is a prostitute, one a housewife and one a professional. They are murdered around the same time at night in the same neighborhood. Who is doing it and why? The story largely circles around the psychology of a serial killer. What sort of mind wants to kill. And why does this particular murderer kill only women in a certain place at a certain time? This is what Maigret, using the principals of psychology plans to find out. Of course he does and the result is interesting, but you'll have to read the book to find out for yourself. . more. I have read so many of Georges Simenon's Maigret mysteries, and always with such avidity that I would deeply regret getting to the end of his bibliography. Maigret Sets a Trap (1955) is about a serial killer who stabs plump women in Montmartre with a pen knife and slashes their clothing. Even when the Superintendent finds a suspect, he is dismayed to discover that yet another woman has been killed. It is then that we see Maigret at his most impenetrable. We never really get into his mind in any I have read so many of Georges Simenon's Maigret mysteries, and always with such avidity that I would deeply regret getting to the end of his bibliography. Maigret Sets a Trap (1955) is about a serial killer who stabs plump women in Montmartre with a pen knife and slashes their clothing. Even when the Superintendent finds a suspect, he is dismayed to discover that yet another woman has been killed. It is then that we see Maigret at his most impenetrable. We never really get into his mind in any of the stories. We, as it were, stand next to him and watch his mind and instincts at work. When the crimes are solved, we are surprised, because we were not privy to his thinking. In fact, at the end of Maigret Sets a Trap , we hear his monologue, as he is not quite willing to admit that his prime suspect was not, in fact, the killer. How he solves the case is nothing short of brilliant -- and, typically, instinctive. . more. Simenon was ahead of his time. The psychological approach is similar to today's crime novels. I like Maigret: he's just a clever detective solving crimes. The writing is crisp; the book is short. No pyrotechnics, very little soap opera about the detective. Boisson cette fois: un blanc Vichy. Simenon was ahead of his time. The psychological approach is similar to today's crime novels. I like Maigret: he's just a clever detective solving crimes. The writing is crisp; the book is short. No pyrotechnics, very little soap opera about the detective. Boisson cette fois: un blanc Vichy. . more. This book along with Seferis' Complete Poems Ποιήματα were two of the five books I took with me to London, books I wasn't able to start. Let's not forget that books are like holidays and journeys. They take you on a journey, they take you to different countries, foreign places. And as Kazantzakis says in his book England: A travel journal that I finished today: "Every new soil we step on can and should be an occasion for our souls to expand." And since I had the luxury of journeying with my body to This book along with Seferis' Complete Poems Ποιήματα were two of the five books I took with me to London, books I wasn't able to start. Let's not forget that books are like holidays and journeys. They take you on a journey, they take you to different countries, foreign places. And as Kazantzakis says in his book England: A travel journal that I finished today: "Every new soil we step on can and should be an occasion for our souls to expand." And since I had the luxury of journeying with my body to museums to galleries and sightseeing in London, I was only reading my book before going to bed and a little bit on the bus. The most I can read in a day when I'm on holidays is 30 pages, and in my 14 days in London I read more or less 400 pages, so more or less 30 pages a day. So for Maigret and Seferis, of course, I didn't have time. Those of you who know me a little bit will know that Rowan Atkinson is my favourite actor who, in addition to being a slapstick Mr. Bean, he also created the witty Blackadder. So hearing that he was going to play the French detective Maigret by Belgian writer Simenon in a TV series, it was a normal reaction for me to get excited. And although detective books are not my cup of tea for Maigret I made an exception. And of course I started with those books that had Atkinson on the cover, another exception I made for my dear Atkinson (I detest movie tie-in covers). The first I read was the one for Agra Editions Ο Μαιγκρέ και ο νεκρός του "Maigret's Dead Man", in November 2018 and this one from Penguin editions, when I was still in the transitional period between holidays and routine a.k.a. holiday blues. I cannot remember a lot from this book, but what I remember is the atmosphere, the noir atmosphere and the slow and steady pace of the plot. In "Maigret's Dead Man" we had a man who felt threatened and called from various parts of the city to Maigret's office for a chance to help him and catch his persecutors, but the title gives us the answer whether this man succeeds to escape or not. In "Maigret sets a trap" women are murdered one after the other in Montmartre and Maigret has to find a way to lure the killer with a bait, a human being. Unfortunately, the series was cancelled after 4 adaptations of 4 books by Simenon. Of course, I will also read the other two books adapted with Atkinson as Maigret: "The Night at the Crossroads" and "Maigret at Picratt's", unfortunately without Atkinson on the cover. But I have to learn and live without this obsession of having a matching cover for everything I buy.