Maigret :La Guinguette à deux sous par G. Simenon: 11 ième roman paru en Décembre 1931.
Une partie de l’enquête se déroule à et aux environs de La Ferté Alais.
Extrait en version british, au fil de mes lectures:
Another map was produced, a military one, showing road surfaces. Maigret walked gloomily up and down, smoking.
“No limestone roads in the direction of Fontainebleau. But here’s a stretch between Arpajon and La Ferté-Alais. . .”
A little later:….At two, one of them telephoned to the mayor of La Ferte-Alais to ask what building operations were going on in the town, and more precisely whether Portland cement was likely to have been spilt on any of the roads in the district. The answer didn’t come through till three.
At the Quai des Orfevres they were hunting upstairs and downstairs. Maigret was wanted urgently, as a message had come through from the Gendarmerie at La Ferte-Alais.
Bassofamilyfound. Await instructions.Firstly the scientific work: the examination ofthe tyres on the Montlhery track, which had reduced the probable area to the district of which La Ferte-Alais was the centre.
But science took matters no further…..……It’s up to you to find out.”
G.Simenon Dec 1931
In the train which took him to La Ferte-Alais he went through Basso’s private address-book from cover to cover…….