Maigret S úctou Picpus - CDmp3 (Čte Jan Vlasák)

The fortune teller did not foresee her death. The suspects are ripe for killing, but where to go with that to Maigret! ***** The police failed to prevent the foretold murder of the seer, who had been warned by a message signed 'Picpus'. Who could possibly keep an eye on 482 clairvoyants in the Paris area! Even poor Miss Jeanna could not read her fate from the crystal ball, and so on that hot August evening, she succumbed to stab wounds. Just a few meters from the corpse – in the locked kitchen of her apartment – sits a confused old man. The retired doctor Le Cloaguen, clearly senile, is unable to explain to Maigret what he is doing at the crime scene. And there’s also suspect number two: the timid gambler and embezzler Mascouvin, who attempted to drown himself in the Seine during his arrest. Who among these oddballs committed the murder and why? A major tangle, but with the help of a pipe and beer, the commissioner will line up the clues and get to the bottom of it. And he doesn’t even have to ponder too deeply over the question: Who is Picpus? ***** One of the most sought-after Maigret novels was published in magazines at the turn of 1941/42 and was first adapted into film a year before the book was published (1944). In its fifth adaptation (2003), Bruno Cremer excels. ***** Length of the recording: 4 hours 22 minutes