Maigret in New York by Georges Simenon

Author:Georges Simenon
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2016-01-07T05:00:00+00:00

It was the American’s idea to order two old Armagnacs in snifters. He was also the first to light his pipe.

‘What are you thinking about?’ he asked, as Maigret sat impassive and thoughtful, his snifter cupped under his nose.

‘Jessie.’

‘And you’re wondering? …’

It was almost a game they were playing, the one man with his everlasting yet discreetly faint smile, the other with his frowning pretence of ill humour.

‘I’m wondering whose mother she is!’

For an instant, the redhead’s smile faded as he sipped and murmured, ‘That will depend on the death certificate, won’t it?’

They had understood each other. Neither one felt like voicing his thoughts any further.

Maigret, however, could not help grumbling, feigning a bad mood that had already passed.

‘If we find it! What with your damned personal freedom that prevents you from keeping a record of who lives and who dies!’

In reply, O’Brien simply pointed to their empty glasses and called, ‘Waiter, the same again!’

And added, ‘Your poor Sicilian must be dying of thirst out on the sidewalk.’

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