Eugene Lapole: 4 books

Book 4, The Circle Game. Maigret, newly arrived in England, is given an appointment as a detective by his mentor, Lord Belmont, much to the disgust of those he has to work with. Being thrown a ‘bone’ (a seemingly hysterical nurse in training thinks her friends, university students, are being murdered)...

Book 3: After the First World War Maigret returns to France and goes to work for the French Police. He loaths the new director of the S. N., Nardon, since he is one of the asses from the First War that led to the French army mutiny. Over a million men died because there was no adjustment made for...

The second book in the series: Maigret, while visiting New York at the height of Carter’s discovery of the Tomb of Tutankhamen, is asked to investigate the death of a lovely socialite at a private party held at the Metropolitan Museum to celebrate the final acquisition of the Three Princesses’...

The Paragon, as the first story written, shows only some of the features and interests that underlie the style of writing. As the stories progress what is revealed about the various characters changes and they become increasingly more complex and interesting in their motives. This interest becomes...