padpowell@wateng.UUCP (PAD Powell[Admin]) (09/26/83)
This week end I decided to read a book by G. Simenon, Maigret's Pipe, one of my favourite short detective stories. I was walking by U. Waterloo's White Elephant (I mean the Arts Library) and decided to check there. There was a listing for the story as part of a collection, so I went up there. Imagine my surprise to find about 80 books by Simenon, with over 50 Maigrets mysteries. I have now read about 6 (in two days) and I think that I know how a junky feels with an overdose. Warning: of course, two of these were in French... as was the complete works... One of the benefits of having a "classical" approach to literature here seems to be: if it is in a foriegn language, it has to be good. I also found a couple of murder mysteries by A. Christie en francais Patrick Powell P.S.- I wonder if there are any Japanese murder mysteries...
citrin@ucbvax.UUCP (09/27/83)
If you're interested in foreign murder mysteries, you might be interested in trying the Martin Beck series by Maj Skowall (sp?) and Per Wahloo. This is a set of Swedish mysteries mostly set in Stockholm. Most, if not all of the volumes, are available in paperback in English translation. One, "The Laughing Policeman," was made into a film (with the setting changed to San Francisco), and another, "The Abominable Man," was made into the good, but little known Swedish film "Man on the Roof." Wayne Citrin (ucbvax!citrin)