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Detective Book Club: Maigret & the spinster; Death of a hawker; The Doomsday carrier
Detective Book Club Maigret the spinster Death of a hawker The Doomsday carrier Author:Georges Simenon, JanWillem Van de Wetering, Victor Canning 1. Maigret & the spinster by Georges Simenon (c1977): Maigret, nagged by his conscience because he didn't take the "spinster's" story seriously enough, redoubles his efforts to solve her case when she is murdered. 2: Death of a hawker by JanWillem Van de Wetering (c)1977: 4th novel by author. His Dutch detectives Grijpstra and De Gier solve seve... more »ral murders that take place along the canals of Amsterdam. 3: The Doomsday carrier by Victor Canning (c)1977: Charlie, an engaging chimpanzee kept at a secret English research laboratory, has been injected with powerful plague baccilli which become effective after twenty-one days. Involuntarily, friendly Charlie is to become a lethal weapon in bacterial warfare. When he escape, Charlie is frantically sough by the government. Without telling the public the true story, though broadcasting pleas for his return, Charlie becomes a symbol of government interference in the right of animals as well as humans.« less