Maigret and the Ghost cover art

Maigret and the Ghost

Inspector Maigret, Book 62

 Preview

Get 30 days of Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30-day free trial. Cancel at any time.
Try for £0.00
More purchase options
Buy Now for £8.99

Buy Now for £8.99

About this listen

During an undercover case Inspector Lognon is shot in a room he was sharing with a beautiful woman who has since disappeared. Inspector Maigret retraces Lognon's secretive last few days and is drawn into the darker side of the art world.

This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret and the Apparition.

©1964 Georges Simenon (P)2020 Audible Ltd Classics Crime Fiction Mystery Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime

Listeners also enjoyed...

 A Man's Head (Inspector Maigret) cover art
Maigret: Collected Cases cover art
A Man Lay Dead cover art
Maigret And The Minister & Other Stories cover art
The Railway Detective cover art
When I Was Old cover art
Last Bus to Woodstock cover art
The Listening Walls cover art
The Man in the Queue cover art
Ratking cover art
Rumpole: On Trial & Going for Silk cover art
Paul Temple: The Complete Radio Collection: Volume One cover art
Zoo Station cover art
Art in the Blood (A Sherlock Holmes Adventure, Book 1) cover art
The Bastards of Pizzofalcone cover art
The Toff cover art
All stars
Most relevant
Simply put, another 3 hours and 19 minutes of literary bliss. Neither Simenon nor Maigret fail to hit anything but a bullseye. Perfection.

Simenon strikes gold again.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This is a great story with really good narration

Well worth a listen for old and new fans of maigret

Very enjoyable

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Another excellent Maigret story. As well read as ever by Gareth Armstrong. This one revolves around the international art world, but for Maigret, comes from nowhere, so he has to move quickly while those involved are still in Paris. Simenon’s ability to convey events swirling around our protagonist, both within his control and beyond it, is wonderfully conveyed.
One of the best things about the Maigret stories is that you can start almost anywhere amongst the many novels and can quickly pick up the characters, both regular and particular, and make sense of the plot. Once you do get to know the staff at the Quai des Orfévre, you begin to notice aspects to the many detectives. The various tv series are generally well done, but necessarily cut down the number of policemen involved. The various twists and turns are always well done, but also within the basis of the plot itself. There are no deus ex machinas from Simenon! If you’re in any doubt, I’d give it a listen.

Maigret lands in the Art world!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It's 1964, the TV age, but Maigret's customary interview methods still pay off as they did in the 1930s. A varied story of shady doings in the art world of rich collectors, with several puzzles for Maigret to solve. A wide gallery of characters from a beautiful heiress, her much older husband who initially makes the big mistake of talking down to working class Maigret, to a filthy old recluse who spends his time at the window watching the world go by. The trigger of the investigation is the street shooting of dear Inspector Lognon, the luckless police intelligence gatherer who can't pass his exams but who aspires to be like Maigret. He's an instinctive and dogged investigator who is on the right track, but gets too close and spends the novel in a coma. Maigret has respect and a soft spot for this recurrent character. Is Simenon making a critique of the increasingly academic modern world? Would Maigret, a gamekeeper's son with a deep understanding of human nature, have risen to chief of detectives in the later twentieth century?

Maigret Draws Them Out

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I have listened to about a half of the Maigret stories and have discovered some really great ones but also detected a slight weakness in the writing of Simenon, and that is to weave a wonderful tale only to let you down at the end with a hurried and often implausible ending. I have even returned thee because right from the word go the storyline was ridiculous. With Maigret and the Ghost however, there are no flaws. It is a great novel which I recommend very highly. Also, let us not omit the quite superb narration by Gareth Armstrong which, whether the storyline rains or shines, is just perfection.

One of the very best Maigret stories..

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews