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Title	:	Maigret and the Calame Report (Inspector Maigret #46)
Author	:	Georges Simenon
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 196 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1996 by Mariner Books (first published 1954)
Categories	:	Mystery. Fiction. Cultural. France. Crime

Maigret and the Calame Report (Inspector Maigret #46) Paperback | Pages: 196 pages

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The Inspector must enter the unsavory world of politics to help a conscientious politician.Maigret is secretly summoned by a distraught cabinet minister who needs help in recovering a document - the Calame report, an engineering study that warned that a government-funded children's sanitarium was of unstable design. The study was hushed up, the report stolen, and the disaster made reality - with 128 children killed in the building's collapse. Now Maigret must plumb the depths of government corruption to find the thief and the report - and let the compromised government fall where it may.

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Original Title:	Maigret chez le ministre
ISBN:	0156551535 (ISBN13: 9780156551533)
Edition Language:	English
Series:	Inspector Maigret #46
Characters:	Joseph Torrence, Albert Lapointe, Auguste Point, Henriette Point, Anne-Marie Point, Blanche Lamotte, Jacques Fleury, Hector Tabard, Joseph Mascoulin, Jules Piquemal, Eugène Benoît, Alain Courmont, Arthur Nicoud, Julien Chabot, René Falk, Madame Gaudry, Bob Gaudry, Madame Calame, Jules Maigret, Louise Maigret, Albert Janvier, André Lucas
Setting:	Paris(France)

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The squeaky-clean minister of public works finds himself being scapegoated by unseen politic forces and calls in Detective Chief Inspector Maigret. The mystery is a wonderfully plotted one, but the aspect that will long remain with me is the argument proffered that politics is a business too dirty for decent men. Clearly, by the end of the novel Minister Auguste Point has joined Maigret and, presumably, author Georges Simenon in that conclusion; however, that leaves the obvious point. If



This is Maigret out of his comfort zone. A cynical and most likely realistic take on French politics. 'In a criminal case, there's usually only one culprit or a group of culprits acting in unison. In politics, it's different and the proof is that there are so many parties in the Chamber.'Maigret usually doesn't judge but in this novel there is no doubt that Simenon is quite prepared to highlight his disdain for politicians. It makes for a fascinating read as Maigret disdainfully and reluctantly

Spending an evening or two reading a Maigret book is equivalent to being with a very good friend. I love being introduced to post-war Paris. I love the manner in which Maigret solves any crime by analyzing his suspect rather than viewing cold facts. It is an interesting twist in the usual method of solving a puzzle. I've read several Maigret books recently and have been delighted with each. This was particularly interesting to me regard the class system that was still in place in the '50 and

Maigret and the Minister was first published as Maigret Chez le Ministre in 1954. It was translated by Moura Budberg. The Calame Report, an architects warning about an unsafe public project which has collapsed and resulted in the death of 128 young children, was disregarded when it was first published, and has subsequently disappeared. Now it has resurfaced, with allegations that several politicians and contractors involved with the project may have previously had it suppressed to avoid a

This book was very easy to read and is the first Maigret book where there are no murders involved, unless you count the 120 or so children who died when the hospital collapsed. The show on the DVD is slightly different but they always are. The 160 page book had to be cut down to 50 minutes. It's a good book to read if you don't want to think to much and need to give your mind time to relax after or during a stressful period in your life.

Spending an evening or two reading a Maigret book is equivalent to being with a very good friend. I love being introduced to post-war Paris. I love the manner in which Maigret solves any crime by analyzing his suspect rather than viewing cold facts. It is an interesting twist in the usual method of solving a puzzle. I've read several Maigret books recently and have been delighted with each. This was particularly interesting to me regard the class system that was still in place in the '50 and