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MAIGEN - The Maigret Encyclopedia Intro   A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A A  AB  AC  AD  AE  AF  AG  AI  AJ  AK  AL  AM  AN  AP  AQ  AR  AS  AT  AU  AV  AY   Abbesses. In the past 6 months five women had been killed, all in Montmartre, and all in the same district, between the four métro stations Lamarck, Abbesses, Place Blanche and Place de Clichy. [1955-TEN] Abbesses, Place des. Janvier called from Au Bon Coin, a place on Rue Germain-Pilon, 200 yards from the Place des Abbesses, where Léonard Planchon used to come for a drink.... Planchon called M from a café on the Place des Abbesses, near a house where he'd been working all day.... M left Planchon's wife [Renée Planchon] and turned left towards Places des Abbesses, instead of going down Rue Lepic to find a taxi on Place Blanche. Place des Abbesses, with its métro station, Théâtre de l'Atelier, which looked like a toy or stage set, and its bistros and small shops, seemed to M to be far more genuine working class Montmartre than Place de Tertre, which had become a tourist trap. [1962-CLI] Marcel Vivien had stayed at the Hôtel Jonard on the Place des Abbesses from June through August. Louis Mahossier had also been living there at the time of Nina Lassave's murder. [1971-SEU] Abbesses, Rue des. At Place Clichy [Place de Clichy], M told the driver to go up Rue Caulaincourt. They passed the Rue Lamarck, and entered a section where nothing had happened so far. M told the driver to keep on going and come back by the Rue des Abbesses. [1955-TEN] They went by métro, got out at Place Blanche and began to walk slowly up Rue Lepic, which makes a large bend to the left where it meets Rue des Abbesses. [1962-CLI] Abdullah. [Henry Miller mentions "Abdullah cigarettes" in a Paris context in "Tropic of Cancer": "Tania is a fever, too... Café de la Liberté Place des Vosges... Montparnasse... Abdullah cigarettes..."] Gloria Negretti was angry with the hotel porter because she'd sent down for Abdullah's cigarettes, and he'd brought a different brand. [1930-PRO] The waiter asked Johann Radek if he wanted Marylands cigarettes. He said he wanted Abdullahs. [1930-31-TET] Abeille Company. Life insurance company paying Aurore Gallet 300,000 francs on policy taken out by Émile Gallet in 1925. [1930-GAL] Abel Tarride. see: Tarride, Abel Abouchère. M looked through the members list of the Hundred Keys Club. Abouchère, the son of Senator Abouchère... [1964-DEF] Aboukir, Rue d'. The manageress of a small hotel in the Rue d'Aboukir said Louise Laboine had spent four months at her hotel, until two months earlier. Janvier said it was the lowest sort of place, most of the clients Algerians. [1954-JEU] Abraham. Jacques Huguet adored children, said the greatest man in history was Abraham. [1966-VOL] Abyssinia. When Germaine Laboine was around 30, before the war, she made her round of Near East clubs, Bucharest, Sofia, Alexandria. Several years in Cairo, even Abyssinia. [1954-JEU] Acacias, Chemin des. Lourtie whispered that he could see a sign, Chemin des Acacias (Jouy-en-Josas). [1969-TUE] Acacias, Rue des. The young couple had filled out a form, Jean Vertbois, 20, advertising agent, and Mme, 18 Rue des Acacias, Paris, on their way to Nice. [1937-38-NOY] A mechanic in the Rue des Acacias, off the Avenue de la Grande-Armée, had bought the De Dion Bouton. [1948-PRE] One of the desk clerks at the Hôtel Wagram thought Bill Larner often ate at Pozzo's on Rue des Acacias. [1951-LOG] M. Kaplan, the owner of Kaplan et Zanin, which had gone out of business three years earlier, lived in Rue des Acacias, near Porte Maillot. [1952-BAN] Mlle Lucile Decaux, Étienne Gouin's assistant, lived around the corner in the Rue des Acacias. [1953-TRO] Three times that week M had been to Manuel Palmari's, the old owner of the Clou Doré on Rue Fontaine, who lived in his bourgeois apartment on the Rue des Acacias. ... Janvier drove M to Palmari's. They drove up the Champs-Élysées, around the Arc de Triomphe, down Avenue MacMahon, to turn left into Rue des Acacias. The district was bourgeois and peaceful. [1964-DEF] Manuel Palmari lived in an apartment on the Rue des Acacias with Aline.... Not only had M cleared his name, he'd gotten a confession from a dentist on the Rue des Acacias who had committed several crimes. [see: DEF] [1965-PAT] Académie Française. Boutigues pointed out a villa that belonged to a famous writer, a member of the Académie Française, and that of a ballet dancer who lived with an English lord. [1932-LIB] Academy. Victor Lamotte appeared with his lawyer, Maître Bourdon, one of the leading lights of the legal profession, President of the French Bar, whose name had been put forward for membership in the Academy. [1968-ENF] Academy of Medicine. Antoinette Ollivier said that because Étienne Gouin was a member of the Academy of Medicine everyone assumed him to be innocent. [1953-TRO] Accountant. M entered Marina's and found Christiani and his young recruit, René Lecoeur, known as the Accountant, as he'd been a bank clerk in Marseilles. [1936-PIG] Ace of Spades. Jacques Huguet said he'd run into Nora in a small nightclub, the Ace of Spades, in Place Saint-Germain-des-Prés. M went there and learned she was the owner. Manager said she had a dozen, including some in the Pigalle area and one on the Champs-Élysées. He said he could retire to the Riviera in a year if he just had three. [1966-VOL] Acrobat. Jef Schrameck was also known as Fred the Clown, and "the acrobat". Louis Thouret's partner in the lunch-time burglaries. [1952-BAN] Action Française. Lapointe found membership cards in Jules Piquemal's room. The oldest was for the Association of the Croix de Feu. Another, from 1937, was for the Action Française [ultra-right-wing groups. footnote in English ed.] . [1954-MIN] Ada Farano. see: Farano, Ada Adalbert d'Oulmont. see: Oulmont, Adalbert d'. Adèle. Jacques Pétillon had asked for a girl named Adèle at the Tivoli. They said she hadn't worked there for ages. "You mean the little dark one with the pear-shaped tits, don't you?" He didn't know. [Jeanne Grosbois] [1942-FEL] Adèle Bosquet. see: Bosquet, Adèle Adèle Noirhomme. see: Noirhomme, Adèle Adeline Paillet. see: Paillet, Adeline Adine Hulot. see: Hulot, Adine Adler. Tissot had said that if he were a blind believer in the theories of Freud, Adler or others, he wouldn't hesitate to assign sexual overtones to the crimes. [1955-TEN] M brought home a psychiatric text from the Director's office, which included a section on Adler's opinion on neurosis. Also Kraepelin and Capgras were mentioned. [1957-SCR] Admiral Café. [Concarneau] Yves Le Pommeret said he and Mostaguen were playing cards at the Admiral Café, with Jean Servières and Dr. Ernest Michoux. [1931-JAU] Admiral Hotel. [Concarneau] Only the three windows of the Admiral Hotel, on the square where it meets the quay, were lighted. [1931-JAU] Adolphe Bonvoisin. See: Bonvoisin, Adolphe [1936-ARR] Adrien Josset. see: Josset, Adrien Adrienne Laur. see: Laur, Adrienne Aerts, Arthur. Old Arthur Aerts, the skipper of the Astrolabe had arrived at La Citanguette about a half an hour after the Aiglon VII, Claessens walking the tow-path with his horses. He was Belgian, said to have a hoard of 100,000 francs on board. [1936-PEN] Aerts, Emma. Arthur Aerts' wife, Emma, had bought bread, eggs and a rabbit at the bistro. She was from Strasbourg, 20 years his junior.... Dr Paul's reports said that Emma had died about 1:00 am. [1936-PEN] Aerts, Joseph. Arthur Aerts' elder son, Joseph Aerts, was the skipper of a tugboat at Antwerp. [1936-PEN] Aerts, Maria Van. see: Van Aerts, Maria Aerts, Théodore. Théodore Aerts, with his father's help, had bought a self-propelled barge, the Marie-France. He'd been notified of his father's death while passing through Maestricht, in Holland. [1936-PEN] Afghan. Jean-Luc Caucasson, fine-looking, tall, spare, thick gray hair, had the look of a pedigreed animal, an Afghan hound perhaps. [1969-VIN] Afghanistan. M read the paper. "Daughter of Mohammedan Ruler married at Nice. festivities in India and Afghanistan... A dinner in Nice at the Palais de la Mediterranée..." A Moslem princess marrying at Nice... [1932-LIB] Africa. There were photographs in his study showing Conrad Popinga in Asia and Africa wearing the uniform of first officer or captain. [1931-HOL] M had an idea he wanted to check, something he'd thought of while waiting for M. Gastinne-Renette's ballistics report at the gunsmith's. He'd been watching a young married couple about to leave for Africa on their honeymoon, trying out some extremely powerful guns. [1942-FEL] The change of scene was as absolute as if they'd been transported to Africa - blue porcelain sky, air perfectly still. [1949-AMI] M explained that when the setting of their house had been the Place des Vosges, the one on the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir was being repaired, so they'd stayed in Georges Simenon's, who was off to Africa for a year, No. 21. [1950-MEM] François Lalinde lived across the street from Adrien Josset. 76, retired colonial adminstrator. Cared for by Julie, a maid he'd brought back from Africa. [1959-CON] François Keller had gone to Africa, in Gabon, at a station some hundreds of miles from Libreville. [1962-CLO] Jean-Charles Gaillard went throught the African campaign, and was in Syria. [1962-COL] Ferdinand Fauchois had been in military prison in Africa when he was in the foreign legion. [1968-HES] Léon Florentin said he'd mostly exported to the emergent countries of Africa. [1968-ENF] Harteau said Antoine Batille's dream was to be a teacher in Asia, Africa and South America, one after another, so he could study the different races. [1969-TUE] Africa Batallions. The doctor said Jean Liberge had tattoos, like he'd seen of the African Batalliions, but different. [1930-PRO] Marcellin had been sent to do military service in the Africa Batallions. [1949-AMI] At 20 Fred Alfonsi had done his military service in the Batallions d'Afrique, since at that time he lived off a prostitute on Boulevard Sébastopol, and had already been arrested twice for assault and battery. [1950-PIC] M told Émile Paulus that after serving 5 years he'd probably be sent off to the Africa brigades. [1951-MEU] Africa, Central. Ernest Combarieu's feet had the scars left from "jiggers", ticks of Central Africa which burrow into a man's toes, and have to be dug out with a knife. [1946-OBS] Pierre Mazet, who'd worked for M ten years earlier, transferred to Central Africa, where he stayed for 5 years. Returned due to ill health. The man who was brought to M's office.... Yvonne Moncin's sister was married to a garage owner at Levallois. They had a brother in Africa. [1955-TEN] African. Angela Dodds' house was littered with African and Chinese artifacts, all the bric-à-brac of Montparnasse bohemians. [1940-JUG] It is generally known that there is one squad solely concerned with the 2-300,000 North Africans, Portuguese and others who live on the outskirts of the 20th, who camp there, scarcely knowing the language if at all. At the Quai des Orfèvres there are maps on which little islands are marked, the Jews of the Rue des Rosiers, the Italians of the Hôtel de Ville district, the Russians of Les Ternes and Denfert-Rochereau... [1950-MEM] Africa, Northern. M thought about men like Samuel Meyer. You'd find them as barmen in Scandinavia, gangsters in America, head-waiters in Germany, or wholesalers in Northern Africa. [1932-FOU] Aglaé. Postmistress, very fat girl, 26 at most. She listened in on most calls, supplied the information that Marcellin had called Ginette to find what year Van Gogh had died, revealing to M that Jef de Greef had forged a Van Gogh for Philippe de Moricourt to sell to Mrs. Ellen Wilcox, and that Marcellin had known. Therefore the murderers were de Greef and de Moricourt. [M pondered her name in reference to her shape, perhaps thinking of Baudelaire's inspiration for his "White Venus" cycle, Apollonie-Aglaé Sabatier, a well-known beauty and artist's model.] [1949-AMI] Aguesseau, Rue d'. Émile Parendon's neurologist brother and his wife lived on the Rue d'Aguesseau, in an apartment they owned, almost as big as Parendon's. [1968-HES] Aiglon Hôtel. see: Hôtel Aiglon Aiglon VII. That Wednesday evening, the Aiglon VII, a small tug from the Upper Seine had brough her six lighters to the La Citanguette lock. [1936-PEN] Aigny. M tried to follow in imagination the bargers and carters... Ay, Mareuil-sur-Ay, Bisseuil, Tours-sur-Marne, Condé, Aigny... M had eaten lunch at Aigny.... M waited for the Southern Cross at the Aigny lock. [1930-PRO] Aiguillon, Pointe de l'. In the distance M saw an island, or perhaps the Pointe de l'Aiguillon... Saint-André-sur-Mer was about 9 miles north of La Rochelle, not far from the Aiguillon headland. [1953-ECO] Aiguillon, Quai de l'. [Concarneau] There was not a single light on the Quai de l'Aiguillon; everything was closed. [1931-JAU] Ailevard. Lapointe had spent two nights at Passy in the house of M. Ailevard, who'd gone to London for two weeks. [1958-TEM] Aillevard. Listed as a telephone subscriber at Boissancourt-par-Saint-André. [1955-COR] Aillevard. M asked if Aillevard were in, but he hadn't come in yet, though Janvier was back. His kids all had the flu. [1956-ECH] Aillevard, Justin. Then came the voice of Justin Aillevard, the procurator, who sat on the Public Prosecutor's bench. [1959-ASS] Aimée Amorelle. see: Amorelle, Aimée Aimée Malik. see: Malik, Aimée Air-Inter. Janvier said there would certainly be an Air-Inter flight to Marseilles. [1971-IND] Airaud, Marcel. Albert Forlacroix pointed out Marcel Airaud to M. [1940-JUG] Air Force. Even the Air Force sergeant who was on the stand was looking at M. [1949-CHE] Air France. Éveline Jave had traveled from Orly to Paris by the Air France bus, which had left her at the Boulevard des Capucines. [1956-AMU] Air France. In Countess Louise Paverini's room were timetables from Air France and Pan American. [1957-VOY] M told Janvier to call Orly and see if the plane that arrived soon after eleven was an Air France or a Swissair. [1966-NAH] airplane. M flew to La Baule in an 8-seater, 2-engine plane. 2-hour flight to La Baule. [1971-SEU] Air Terminal. The Old Wine Press was on the other side of the boulevard, near the Air Terminal subway entrance. [1966-VOL] Aisne. M had been studying all the historical cases which bore some resemblance... Jack the Ripper, the Düsseldorf Vampire, the Viennese lamplighter, and the Pole who operated among the farms in the Aisne Department. [1955-TEN] Aix-en-Provence. Liliane Pigou spent two weeks with her parents in Aix-en-Provence, where her father was an architect. Then she went to stay with her sister, who'd rented a house in Bandol. [1969-VIN] Pepito Giovanni said he owned a dozen move theaters up and down the Riviera: Two in Marseilles, one in Nice, one in Antibes, three in Cannes, one in Aix-en-Provence. [1970-FOL] Aix-les-Bains. M remembered the morning the Comtesse de Saint-Fiacre had left for Aix-les-Bains when he was a boy. [1932-FIA] Ajoupa. M's dentist. He hadn't seen him for a year. [1964-DEF] Akel, K. The photographer of the family scene M found in Anna Gorskin's room, K. Akel, Pskov. [1929-30-LET] Alain Courmont. see: Courmont, Alain Alain de Folletier. see: Folletier, Alain de Alain Druet. see: Druet, Alain Alain Dupré de Boissancourt. see: Boissancourt, Alain Dupré de Alain Lagrange. see: Lagrange, Alain Alain Lemaire. see: Lemaire, Alain Alain Mazeron. see: Mazeron, Alain Alain Serre. see: Serre, Alain Alain Vernoux. see: Vernoux, Alain Alban Groult-Cotelle. see: Groult-Cotelle, Alban Albatross. A boatman called out to Émile Ducrau that the Albatross was held up at Meaux. [1933-ECL] Albert. The manservant at the de Saint-Marc's. [1931-OMB] Maurice de Saint-Fiacre called to Albert, the butler, to bring them a drink. [1932-FIA] Albert, the landlord of the hotel, told M he had a phone call. It was from Mme M. [1932-FLA] Rosalie's fiancé, Albert, came into M's room with her. [1932-FOU] Albert, the valet de chambre at the Hôtel Beauséjour in Cannes, a grimy individual. [1932-LIB] M's eyes were following the new proprietor of the Floria, Albert, a blond young man, whom he'd known as the manager of a dance hall in Montparnasse. [1934-MAI] Proprieter of Chez Albert, on the Rue Blanche, where Charles Dandurand and his unsavory associates would meet.... "As Albert would say, I'm spilling the beans." Dandurand's statement to M.... All the big bosses who were in the habit of gathering every evening at Albert's place were waiting for M in the bistro near the cemetery.... The small band of gentlemen with flashy rings was no doubt engaged in a game of belote at Chez Albert, on the Rue Blanche. [1940-CEC] Alphonse told M he'd been out on the river with Albert, his apprentice. [1945-FAC] Albert, the valet, was a jockey till he was 21. He was also from Anseval. He slept above the stables with Jérôme, the coachman.... Dédé brought M to his table, where he introduced Albert, broken nose, bovine type, and Lucile. [1948-PRE] The concierge, M. Albert, told M. Gilles he'd sent his assistant, René up to Colonel David Ward's, and that he was dead in his bath in suite 347. [1957-VOY] Albert. Arlette's young boyfriend, Albert, turned out to be Lapointe. [1950-PIC] Albert Babeau. see: Babeau, Albert Albert Fagonet. see: Fagonet, Albert Albert Falconi. see: Falconi, Albert Albert Forlacroix. see: Forlacroix, Albert Albertine Fagonet. see: Fagonet, Albertine Albert Janvier. see: Janvier Albert Jorisse. see: Jorisse, Albert Albert, Little. see: Little Albert Albert Luce. see: Luce, Albert Albert Magnin. see: Magnin, Albert Albert Marcinelle. see: Marcinelle, Albert Albert Premièr, Boulevard. [Nice] Hélène Lange had lived nine years in Vichy, before that in Nice, in a fairly shabby lodginghouse in Boulevard Albert I. [1967-VIC] Albert-Premièr, Cours. Rosalie Moncoeur said the last she'd seen Maria Pinaco she was walking the streets on the Cours Albert-Premièr in Nice. [1950-PIC] [Nice] Kubik, who M had arrested 12 years before after a jewel robbery on Boulevard Saint-Martin. It was likely he'd been involved in the theft last month on Cours Albert-Premièr in Nice. [1959-ASS] Albert Raymond. see: Raymond, Albert Albert Retailleau. see: Retailleau, Albert Albert Rochain. see: Rochain, Albert Albertus Parvus. The old woman explained that Albertus Parvus was a book of magic dating from the 14th or 15 century. [1947-MOR] Alcyon. Enormous white yacht kept at Porquerolles, almost entirely metal, owned by a Lyons businessman, M. Jaureguy, who used it one week a year. On board were two Breton sailors, middle-aged men who never mixed with the locals, went for a drink from time to time at Morin-Barbu's. [1949-AMI] Aldegonde, Sister. Invariably Sister Aldegonde came to the door of the big ward with the 20 beds. [1947-VAC] Aldo de Rocca. see: Rocca, Aldo de À l'Escargot. On the opposite pavement, just across from the Rue des Saints-Pères, was a homely restaurant, À l'Escargot. Jean, the waiter, confirmed that a woman matching the description of the one who went into the Café des Ministères had been there, Isabelle Auger. [1946-OBS] Alésia, Rue d'. Gilbert Pigou's father lived in an apartment on the Rue d'Alésia, for nearly 50 years. Gilbert had been born there. His father had been a cashier in a branch office of the Crédit Lyonnais. [1969-VIN] Alexandre Dumas. see: Dumas, Alexandre Alexandria. When Germaine Laboine was around 30, before the war, she made her round of Near East clubs, Bucharest, Sofia, Alexandria. Several years in Cairo, even Abyssinia. [1954-JEU] Alfa-Romeo. Mathis, from the 12th, had noticed a red Alfa Romeo parked in front of 76B Boulevard Voltaire, the engine still warm. [1966-NAH] Line Marcia said her husband had given her an Alfa-Romeo recently. His own car was a Bentley. He had a chauffeur, but sometimes drove himself. [1971-IND] Alfonsi. Alfonsi had been attached to the Police Judiciaire, but not M's department. For a few years had been in Vice Squad. Had opened a private detective agency in the Rue Notre-Dame-de-Lorette. Short, wore high heels, dressed elegantly, a big diamond (real or paste) on his finger. (cf. Santoni). Was working for Philippe Liotard.... Alfonsi lived in the Hôtel du Massif Central, room 33, Rue de Douai. M told Lapointe to check his room for the suitcase if it wasn't at Liotard's. [1949-MME] Alfonsi. Lognon and another inspector from the 18th, Alfonsi, a Corsican, came slowly up the stairs. [1955-TEN] Alfonsi, Fred. The owner of Picratt's. Had owned it for 11 years.... About 50, short and strong.... At 20 Fred Alfonsi had done his military service in the Batallions d'Afrique, since at that time he lived off a prostitute on Boulevard Sébastopol, and had already been arrested twice for assault and battery. At 28 he was in Marseilles, supplying brothels. He wasn't a pimp, but high enough not to get pinched in brawls in the bars of the Vieux Port. No convictions, but he got in trouble because of a 17-year-old girl he placed in Le Paradis of Béziers with false papers. After that he'd gone to Panama on an Italian ship with 5 or 6 girls. At 40 he was living in Paris with Rosalie Dumont, Rose, running a massage parlor on Rue des Martyrs. [1950-PIC] Alfonsi, Rose. The former Rosalie Dumont, Fred Alfonsi's wife. Lapointe said she was nearly 70. [1950-PIC] Alfortville. Joseph Heurtin had stopped at a soup kitchen on the Rue Réaumur. He went on to Charenton, then Alfortville, then the road to Villeneuve-Saint-Georges. [1930-31-TET] The skipper of the Aiglon VII said that at Alfortville, Émile Gradut had often went to meet Emma Aerts, even in broad daylight. [1936-PEN] Alfred. Alfred, the night assistant station-master, said he didn't remember seeing Émile Duffieux taking the 163, the 10:52 to Paris he'd bought two second-class tickets for. [1947-VAC] Night porter at the Hôtel d'Orsay, greeted Canonge familiarly. [1955-COR] Alfred de Vigny. see: Vigny, Alfred de Alfred Jussiaume. see: Jussiaume, Alfred Alfred Meurant. see: Meurant, Alfred Alfred Moss. see: Moss, Alfred Algeria. Martin Vignolet had lived in Algeria. [1936-LUN] The proprieter of the Brasserie Dauphine said the wine of Vin des Moines was a mixture of wines from the South and from Algeria. [1969-VIN] Algerian. The peanut seller on the corner of Rue Clignancourt and Boulevard Rochechouart was an Algerian. M. Jacob said Éléonore Boursang had threatened to use him instead if M. Jacob didn't like her price. [1930-GAL] A half-drunk Algerian came along, and M asked him to find them a taxi. [1934-MAI] At 3:00 M was in his office at the Quai des Orfèvres, when a call came in about some Algerians knifing one another in the neighborhood of the Porte d'Italie. Algerians were the special concern of Sergeant Lucas. [1936-FEN] Motte said he'd done his military service at Orange, with spahis. Incredible to think he'd worn the gorgeous uniform of the Algerian calvary and pranced about the streets of Orange on an Arab charger! [1937-38-NOT] The manageress of a small hotel in the Rue d'Aboukir said Louise Laboine had spent four months at her hotel, until two months earlier. Janvier said it was the lowest sort of place, most of the clients Algerians. [1954-JEU] Among the customers at the Petit Saint-Paul were some Algerians. [1961-PAR] Algiers. Germaine Rivaud told M she'd been living in Algiers with her mother and sister when she'd married Jacques Rivaud, who'd spent two years at the hospital there.... Joséphine Beausoleil said her daughter Françoise Beausoleil had been born in Algiers. [1932-FOU] For no apparent reason Honoré Cuendet had deserted the Foreign Legion and was found in a workshop in Algiers. [1961-PAR] One of Liliane Pigou's sisters lived in Algiers, married to an engineer who worked for a petroleum company. The other lived in Marseilles, had three children. [1969-VIN] Bandol was white, almost like Algiers, and there were palm trees. They passed the Casino. [1971-IND] Alice. Mme. Keller got a call from her friend Alice, wife of the Minister of the Interior. Would meet her and Laure later. [1962-CLO] Alice Bruart. see: Bruart, Alice Alice Feynerou. see: Feynerou, Alice Alice in Wonderland. Valentine Besson's eyes had a kind of "Alice in Wonderland" expression. [1949-DAM] Alice Pardon. see: Bruart, Alice Alice Perret. see: Perret, Alice Alice Perrin. see: Perrin, Alice Alien Resident's Bureau. M called the Alien Resident's Bureau and spoke to Robin. [1951-LOG] Aliens Bureau. Lognon had gone to all the hotels around Avenue de Wagram and around the Opéra, and checked the Aliens Bureau. [1951-LOG] Aline. There was also the niece of his wife's, whose name was Aline, and whom everyone called Nine. [1947-MOR] 22. Manuel Palmari's mistress. Had worked as his waitress in the Clou Doré when she was thin, black hair on end, flashing dark eyes. Manuel had picked her up on the street. She'd put on weight and looked like a "little lady." Had started on the sidewalks of the Boulevard Sébastopol at 16, and now resembled an elegant housewife. She was from a little village in Morbihan, and had come to Paris as a nursemaid. She'd worked for about six months for a very rich family in Neuilly, even after she'd starting frequenting the dance halls in the Gravilliers district, and on Rue de Lappe. [1964-DEF] (full name: Aline Bauche.) 25. Had lived with Manuel Palmari for three years. Owned the building at Rue des Acacias. [1965-PAT] Aline was the youngest girl in the office, except for Anne-Marie Boutin. [1969-VIN] Aline Calas. see: Calas, Aline Aline Gassin. see: Gassin, Aline Aline Rousselet. see: Rousselet, Aline Alitalia. Someone from Alitalia had brought Louise Paverini over, as she'd missed her Air France flight. [1957-VOY] Allier. M felt like the little boy he'd been in Allier, when he'd walked on tiptoe and held his breathm when he went into the sacristy to put on his choir-boy's cassock. [1947-VAC] M thought of going directly to see the big chief, the Chief of the Sûreté, Xavier Guichard, for he knew him personally. He'd often spent his holidays near his family home in the Allier, and at one time had been a friend of his father's. [1948-PRE] Almost every day the Big Chief called M to his office. He'd known him since his childhood, and he'd spent his vacations close to their home in Allier, and had been a friend of his father's. [1950-MEM] M told Tissot he was born in the Allier. [1955-TEN] M remembered his first year at school in the Allier village, when he'd told his first big lie. He'd been given am old Catechism with a greenish cover, while others had received a new one. He'd told the teacher he'd lost his, but he had hidden it, so he'd get a new one too. Finally he told the truth and gave back the new one. [1961-BRA] The manager of the Clou Doré, Jean-Loup Pernelle, was also the head waiter. Born in Allier, he'd started as a waiter in Vichy. [1965-PAT] Each new day they found themselves in the same place at the same time... beside the Allier... Later on it would be cool on the Allier promenade... Across the Allier they could see the horses cantering alongside the white fenceposts of the racecourse. [1967-VIC] M said that as boys they'd gone swimming together in the Allier and Léon Florentin was by far the best swimmer in the school. [1968-ENF] All Saint's Day. That Sunday had been All Saint's Day. Towards evening the officials of the Department of Public Prosecution made their way towards the Boulevard Beaumarchais. [1936-BEA] Mme M remarked that the rainy day was a proper All Saint's Day, though M remembered it more as overcast, windy and cold, but not wet. [1952-BAN] All Soul's Day. [Jour des Morts, a day of solemn prayer for all dead persons, observed by Roman Catholics and certain Anglicans, usually on Nov. 2. (1550-1560).] A message to the Municipal Police at Moulins had said that a crime would be committed at the first Mass on All Soul's Day at the church of Saint-Fiacre. [1932-FIA] Laurence Decoin said La Popine had already worn out three husbands, so she had plenty to do on All Soul's Day. [1947-VAC] It had been an emptier Sunday than usual, possibly because this year it happened to be All Soul's Day. He would have sworn he could still smell the chrysanthemums. From their window they'd watched families setting off for the cemeteries. [1958-TEM] Almanach de Gotha. [Gothaische Hofkalender; Gotha Almanac, a widely used annual reference book, first published (1763) by the grographical-cartographical publishing house of Justus Perthes, Gotha, Thuringia, central Germany.] M passed the Papeterie Roman, amusing himself by reading names straight out of the Almanach de Gotha on visiting cards or engraved invitations. [1968-HES] Alpes-Maritimes. M called the Sûreté Nationale in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes. [1940-JUG] The car fished out of the Marne at Lagny was the chocolate-colored Chrysler, with Alpes-Maritimes plates, and Countess Panetti's body in it. [1949-MME] Lassagne's article said the Alpes-Maritimes Flying Squad had been sent to interrogate Mlle. Claire Jusserand, Michèle Jave's nurse. [1956-AMU] Alphonse. Alphonse, the lock-keeper's son at at Orsenne, had been out in his boat at night fishing. [1945-FAC] Alphonse Daudet. see: Daudet, Alphonse Alpine. An Alpine beret had been dropped at the scene of a robbery, which they hoped would lead to the criminals. [1957-VOY] Alps. When he had the Alps beneath him M had to admit it was a magnificent sight. [1957-VOY] Alsace. When M got home Mme M would kiss him, move her saucepans about on the stove, and fill a plate with savory stew.... She prepared plum brandy every year in her native village in Alsace, where she returned every summer. [1929-30-LET] A bargee protested that his brother-in-law in Alsace had been brought back to life after almost three hours in the water. [1930-PRO] M told Lucas to help himself to some of the plum brandy [la prunelle] his sister-in-law in Alsace made herself, in the long-necked bottle. [1930-31-PHO] M asked Mme M if she really wanted to take her vacation at Alsace. For 20 years they had invariably spent their holidays with relations in the same village in the east. [1931-REN] M went to Alsace with Mme M, who always spent one of the summer months there with her sister. M returned to Paris after a few days, but promised to come back down.... Although M wanted to see his wife, to spend a few hours trout fishing in the streams of Alsace, he too wanted to go to Morsang.... Mme M wrote from Alsace that they were starting to make the apricot jam. [1931-GUI] Mme M's sister had come from Alsace, and brought a bottle of plum brandy, as she always did. [1931-OMB] Mme M was spending a fortnight in Alsace with her sister, who was expecting a baby. [1932-FOU] Jaja asked M if women sent to prison were sent to Alsace, to Hagueneau. She thought for a moment it was Hossegor's. [1932-LIB] Jean Ducrau had made a trip on the Golden Fleece to Alsace for three months the year before. [1933-ECL] Philippe Lauer was Mme M's sister's son, born down in Alsace, and M had got him into the Quai des Orfèvres.... M looked at his sister-in-law who had arrived from Alsace. [1934-MAI] M went to Atoum's carpet shop, where cups of Turkish coffe were laid out. M reminded him of their meeting in Alsace, the Vosges. [1939-MAJ] M had some Alsatian plum brandy, which Mme M's sister sent from time to time. [1950-NOE] On the few occasions M had traveled on summer vacations it had been to meet Georges Simenon at his various homes, while he was still living in France: in Alsace, at Porquerolles, in the Charentes, the Vendée, etc. And when M had gone on a semi-official tour of the US, it was mainly since he knew he'd meet him in Arizona, where he'd been living.... M said he should really present a genealogy of the Schöllers, the Kurts and the Léonards, his wife's family. Anywhere in Alsace between Strasbourg and Mulhouse you can hear speak of them. A Kurt from Scharrachbergheim first, under Napoleon, founded the tradition of Bridges and Highways. [1950-MEM] Mme M had been called away to Alsace, to the bedside of her sister, who was going to have an operation. [1951-MEU] Everyone was surprised when, a few weeks before the German retreat they arrested Auguste Point, and took him to Niort, then somewhere in Alsace. They caught three of four others at the same time, one a surgeon from Bressuire. [1954-MIN] Once, when M had already arrived at his sister-in-law's in Alsace, he'd received a frantic phone call on the first day and had to rush back to Paris. [1956-AMU] Shortly before WWII, Lemke was a patient there, a dealer in scrap metal who had a bad reputation in Alsace. [1962-CLO] M had known the proprieter of the Stork for 30 years, almost all the customers regulars from eastern France, since the owner was from Alsace. [1966-VOL] M told Dr. Rian of taking a glass or two of sloe gin after dinner, which his sister-in-law always sent from Alsace. [1967-VIC] That evening M and Mme M sat watching a movie on television and sipping little glasses of framboise his sister-in-law in Alsace sent them. [1968-ENF] M poured himself a small tot of sloe gin from the bottle his sister-in-law had sent them from Alsace.... M went over to the sideboard, where, besides the sloe gin, there was a bottle of raspberry liqueur, both from his sister-in-law in Alsace. [1969-VIN] When the Pardons came over, the men would gossip idly, drinking Alsatian gin or raspberry brandy. [1971-IND] Alsace-Loraine. Jef Schrameck had made his debut as a circus performer at an early age, appearing mainly in Germany and Alsace-Loraine. [1952-BAN] Alsatian. Mme M said it wouldn't do to be Alsatian if you couldn't make guiches. [1932-FLA] M met Mme M for dinner at the Alsatian restaurant in the Rue d'Enghien. He had sauerkraut just the way he liked it. [1949-MME] It was not merely by chance that M finally went into an Alsatian brasserie. He needed to feel solid ground under his feet. [1958-TEM] Éveline Schneider was Alsatian, born in Strasbourg. [1961-PAR] M had Lucas call Breuker at Orly. An Alsatian, Superintendent of the airport.... Mme M had made Alsatian sauerkraut as could only be found in two restaurants in Paris. The pickled pork was particularly good, and M opened two bottles of Strasbourg beer. [1966-NAH] Alsatian. The lock keeper said he could see it was the Astrolabe, with old Claessens on deck with his Alsatian dog. [1936-PEN] Frédéric Michaux had a fierce Alsatian dog, so no one could have gotten in from outside. [1939-VEN] The waiter at the bar said René Josselin had had an old dog, a crippled Alsatian that tagged along after him with its head down, seven or eight years ago. [1961-BRA] In one of the photos there was a hugh Alsatian dog standing next to Gérard Sabin-Levesque. [1972-CHA] Alsinia Hôtel. see: Hôtel Alsinia Alvaredo, Vicente. Vicente Alvaredo, 26, born in Bogota, was a student, resident in Paris, Rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs. He was staying at the Rembrandt Hôtel in Amsterdam. Évelina Nahour had called him as soon as Jef Keulemans had left. He had a shorthand transcript of the conversation. [1966-NAH] À ma Bourgogne. Mimile called M from Ivry. Told M he was at À ma Bourgogne, a little hotel, three stories, ground floor brown, just opposite the gas works. Mimile was in 22, Georges-Henry [Georges-Henry Malik] in 21. Mimile said it was funny, vingt-deux, v'la les flics, watch out, here come the cops. (22 skiddoo). [1945-FAC] Amadieu. Dr. Florian remembered that Dr. Amadieu, a psychiatrist who worked at Sainte-Anne and lived in the Latin Quarter, was a mutual friend. [1972-CHA] Amadieu. Philippe Lauer said he was working under Inspector Amadieu. He'd been appointed Divisional Inspector when M retired. His room had been the last on the right at the end of the corridor. A thin, melancholy man.... Amadieu, with his long plae face and brown mustaches that he was perpetually twirling, was not a bad man. He had a wife and three children, among them a daughter on whom he would settle a handsome dowry. But he fancied himself surrounded by conspiracies. [1934-MAI] Amazone. Véronique Lachaume worked at the Amazone, around the corner in the Rue Marbeuf. [1958-TEM] Ambassadeurs. The driver stopped in front of the Ambassadeurs in Cannes. The Casino was ablaze with lights. [1932-LIB] Ambassadeurs, Hôtel des. see: Hôtel des Ambassadeurs Ambigu Theatre. see: Théâtre de l'Ambigu Amboise. The butcher's family had arrived from Amboise. [1938-CEU] Ambrosini, Joseph. Joseph Ambrosini was a waiter at the Casino of Cannes. Sylvie's "protector".... Joseph said he'd just come from the Préfecture where he'd had his identity card renewed. Joseph Ambrosini, born at Milan. waiter. [1932-LIB] Amédée Rousselet. see: Rousselet, Amédée Amelia. Amelia, the maid who lived on the 7th floor at Aline's, next to Yolande, was out when M came by. [1965-PAT] Amélie Potru. see: Potru, Amélie Amelot, Rue. M knew Mme M had gone down to the Rue Amelot to buy some hot croissants for his Christmas morning breakfast. [1950-NOE] Constables Mathis and Bernier went out at 11:00, down Boulevard Voltaire to the Rue Amelot. [1966-NAH] America. Mrs. Muriel Britt, the old Englishwoman, had chosen to disappear. She'd come to Paris with 52 others, a group the travel agents assemble in England, America, Canada or elsewhere, and take to Paris for a week. [1956-ECH] America. Judge Forlacroix had said Constantinesco had given violin recitals in America. It was his daughter, Valentine Constantinesco Judge Forlacroix had married. [1940-JUG] America. Pietr had told Hans [Hans Johansson] he was going to America on some job that would make him a millionaire. [1929-30-LET] Beetje Liewens wrote to Conrad Popinga that they could run away to America. [1931-HOL] Feinstein had spoken of going to America if his financial troubles got too great. [1931-GUI] M thought about men like Samuel Meyer. You'd find them as barmen in Scandinavia, gangsters in America, head-waiters in Germany, or wholesalers in Northern Africa.... Samuel Meyer had gone to America after his son and wife, Germaine Rivaud and her sister went to France. [1932-FOU] M pointed to the mark on the woman's shoulder, the mark which in America they use to brand criminal women.... M said "Stan" sounded more American than Polish. [1937-38-STA] Mimi had written that she and Oswald Clark got married in England and would sail for America in 3 or 4 days. [1939-MAJ] It rains along the banks of the Loire just as well as it does in America. [1946-NEW] Alfred Moss had been prosecuted first in London, where he claimed to be Swiss. A jewel case had disappeared from the room of an American lady who'd called him to interpret a letter she'd received from Germany.... Frans Steuvels said he'd had a suit made a few years earlier by a neighbor, a Polish Jew, who'd since disappeared, perhaps gone to America. [1949-MME] In the boarding house were other women like Maria Van Aerts, from England, Sweden, America. [1951-GRA] Jimmy MacDonald said Bill Larner was one of the best con men in America. [1951-LOG] One of Jef Claes' son-in-laws had died in Germany. The other remarried in America. [1965-PAT] Some of the trees along the Allier were rare specimins, from America, India and Japan, with little metal plates in Latin and French. [1967-VIC] American. Lucas had checked at the Coupole, where the girls were known. They'd sent him to the Dingo, then to the Cigogne. Finally he found them in a little American bar in the Rue Vavin.... Vladimir was wearing an American beret.... M found Vladimir's American sailor's cap in the barn under some straw.... The driver of the baker's van hunched over the wheel like a detective in pursuit of a criminal in an American film. [1930-PRO] A rich American woman and her maid had been killed at Saint-Cloud.... Moers said the note was written with ink from the American bar at the Coupole, written with the left hand by a right-handed person. [1930-31-TET] Léon Le Glérec said while he had talked to the men and American had showed up who knew about boats.... One day in Sing Sing Léon Le Glérec had met an American from Brest, who'd been a Prohibition agent, in England, France, and Germany. There were 10 tons of cocaine aboard the Pretty Emma that he'd supplied. They'd decided to turn in Léon for the bounty. [1931-JAU] In a few minutes Mme. Marcel Basso appeared wearing sailor clothes of red-brown canvas, toile de Concarneau, and an American sailor hat.... James said before the bank he'd done translation for an American petroleum company. [1931-GUI] The garage attendant at Cannes said an American girl had come in who wanted her car redone in the shape of a swan. [1932-LIB] Mme M said the blonde girl [Rita] always went into 17b [Place des Vosges], where some people who had a big American car and a chauffeur lived. [1937-38-AMO] What was M to do, play at guardian angel like those American private detectives hired to follow nurses and children and protect them from gangsters? [1937-38-BER] Ellen Darroman was just the kind of woman who exasperated M in American movies.... Oswald Clark hit out furiously at M's face, with the clean, clockwork precision one sees in American films. [1939-MAJ] The proprietor of the Pélican said they'd wouldn't find anything in his place except a few Americans doing the town. [1942-FEL] The Americans, especially, had wanted to take advantage of the French liqueurs. [1946-NEW] Gastinne-Renette told M that an American-type silencer had been fitted onto the gun that killed Michel Goldfinger. [1946-MAL] One of the inspectors had his hat pushed to the back of his head, like the detectives in American films. [1947-VAC] M told Coméliau he was talking about small, working-class cafés, not the American bars of the Opéra and Champs-Élysées.... The Cadran was the kind of brasserie M liked, not yet modernized, seats upholstered in dark red American cloth, the smell of beer and sauerkraut. [1947-MOR] They were sitting at a table covered with American cloth. [1948-PRE] The difference was the Americans were more friendly. Whether in New York or one of the ten or eleven other states he'd been in since, people would tap him on the shoulder and ask "What's your first name?" [1949-CHE] M explained that big, noisy, Torrence had been "killed" in place of another inspector in a Champs-Élysées hotel. He'd left the force to open a private detective agency, and has a big American car, always comes by with a pretty woman, his "fiancée". [1950-MEM] The Grasshopper, doorman at Picratt's, distributed handbills, mostly to American clients of big hotels.... The Grasshopper told M he'd come to the tabac that night to get cigarettes for an American.... Lognon said that apparently Arlette's type of dancing was what was done in American burlesque shows. [1950-PIC] The man who came to Lognon's was probably an American, tall reddish-blond man with broad shoulders.... The car belonged to a garage at the Porte Maillot. It had been rented to an American, Bill Larner, living at the Hôtel Wagram, Avenue de Wagram.... For twenty years Luigi at the Manhattan Bar had seen the whole American colony file through his place.... Perhaps if M had gone to the American consul or the ambassador, they would also have told him to keep out of it.... The Americans employed methods which baffled them. Quickness of decision seemed to be their main characteristic. And they never hesitated to show themselves. [1951-LOG] If Hans Ziegler's con was in Europe, his "wealthy old lady" would be an American. [1954-JEU] Marthe Jusserand said she wanted an American cigarette. M bought her a pack, the first time he'd ever bought American cigarettes.... A girl in the Place Blanche was trying to persuade a man, an American or Englishman, to take her to a nightclub, but he kept saying no, no. [1955-TEN] Lapointe was staring at a man in the elevator, who was the greatest comedian in American movies.... The three Americans were still arguing about which plane to take. [1957-VOY] Jacques Sainval would have been more at home in the American bar across the street. [1958-TEM] Christine Josset had a Cadillac, an American car.... Daunard was the same aggressive type as young American stars. [1959-CON] The man Ginette Meurant had gone to the hotel with was a chain-smoker of American cigarettes. [1959-ASS] Lucas told M Depeu was there to see him. Inspector Depeu had a large family, six or seven children. He'd found the girl coming out of a hotel with an American soldier.... There'd been some phone calls, from an American news agency and the provincial papers. [1960-VIE] Stuart Wilton was English. M asked if he were American. [1961-PAR] Émile Boulay had joined the American Marines. Went back to work as a deputy chief steward on the Île de France.... Outside Jean-Charles Gaillard's house was a pale-blue American car. [1962-COL] The owner of the yellow Jaguar was Ed Gollan, an American, staying at the Ritz. [1963-FAN] Jean-Baptiste Prieur's brother, Christophe Prieur, was married, had a daughter, lived in Morocco, committed suicide, wife disappeared, perhaps married an American living in Texas. Daughter was Nicole Prieur. [1964-DEF] Mabel Tuppler lived on the second floor left at Aline's. American, about 30, writer for American newspapers and magazines. [1965-PAT] Jacques Huguet said he had a date at the Ritz with an American movie star. [1966-VOL] Julien Blond, the waiter at the Café des Amis thought it was a camera like the ones the Americans carry that Antoine Batille had been wearing. [1969-TUE] Maître Poupard, the criminal lawyer, was one of the leading lights of the Bar, married to a very rich American woman. [1969-VIN] Bob, barman at Bar de l'Amiral in Toulon, said Le Grand Marcel had something that would be of especial interest to the Americans.... Pepito Giovanni owned a magnificent villa, which he'd bought from a rich old American who had decided to go home. The finest property in Sanary. [1970-FOL] The funeral procession had big cars with Riviera plates, big American cars as well as sports cars. [1971-IND] When Louisa came back, M. Charles was gone, and Zoé was sitting with a big American. [1972-CHA] American bar. M went to the Select at apéritif time, and sat not far from the American bar, where the talk was about racing. He showed the Roger Couchet's picture and asked if he'd seen him. [1931-OMB] American Consulate. Albert Falconi said they hadn't yet sent anyone to the American Consulate to get a passport in Louise Laboine's name. [1954-JEU] American Embassy. Ellen Darroman and Oswald Clark went to the American Embassy, on Avenue Gabriel. [1939-MAJ] American Embassy. Mortimer-Levingston had just left the Majestic Hotel for lunch at the American Embassy. [1929-30-LET] Luigi would bet on anything. Sometimes with a compatriot vaguely connected with the American Embassy, he'd bet on how many Citroëns would go by in 20 minutes. [1951-LOG] Maître Poupard was one of dozens being entertained at the American Embassy on the Avenue Gabriel. [1969-VIN] American Hospital. Janvier called and said Étienne Gouin had come to Lulu [Louise Filon]'s apartment. He said he had an important operation at the American Hospital at Neuilly that afternoon. [1953-TRO] Dr. Frère told Jules to call the American Hospital at Neuilly to send an ambulance. [1957-VOY] American Legion. Fat Fred, associated with Pietr, passed the forged check at the Federal Bank in Berne, was killed while being arrested. Had passed himself off as Major Howard of the American Legion, but was a former New York bootlegger, known as Fat Fred. [1929-30-LET] Amiens. M scanned the list of guests for where they came from: London, Amiens, Compiègne, Marseilles, Mercy-le-Haut. [1937-38-ETO] A little 9-year-old girl had witnessed the December 8 attack, had been adopted by a family in Amiens. She identified Maria's picture.... Carl Lipschitz had been in the regions just to the south of Amiens, where the first three crimes were committed. The fourth, a little further east, was towards Saint-Quentin. Lipschitz probably had a girl friend or acquaintance there. [1947-MOR] Before Gilbert Négrel, Philippe Jave had employed Dr. Brisson, but he'd started a practice in Amiens and was no longer available. [1956-AMU] Amorelle. Amorelle came from Berry, married the boss'es daughter. Formed a partnership with Campois, and they bought land by the Seine, upstream from Paris, made their first gravel pit their, 45 years ago. Bernadette Amorelle's late husband, had died 20 years ago.... Maître Ballu remembered that when he'd first met Amorelle, around the time of the Exposition of 1900, he'd asked him if he were connected to the Amorelles of Geneva, an old Protestant family. [1945-FAC] Amorelle, Aimée. Aimée Malik's maiden name was Amorelle. [1945-FAC] Amorelle and Campois. Ship builders and quarry owners. M had once conducted an inquiry in Upper Seine, and all day long seen strings of boats with the Amorelle and Campois green triangle. In the Île Saint-Louis he had often noticed their offices. [1945-FAC] Amorelle, Bernadette. Bernadette Amorelle came to M to have him take up her case. Would be 82 on Sept. 7. She offered him 50,000 francs if successful, 10,000 in any event. [1945-FAC] Amorelle, Laurence. Laurence Malik's maiden name. The elder of the Amorelle daughters. [1945-FAC] Amstel. Jef Keulemans said he'd shown M the brewery's warehouses when they'd sailed down the Amstel together. [1966-NAH] Amsterdam. On the wall behind M's desk was an enormous map. His eyes traveled from Cracow, to the port of Bremen, then to Amsterdam and Brussels.... M read another telegram in polcod, from Bremen: Pietr the Lett reportedly making for Amsterdam and Brussels.... M read the final telegram in polcod, from Brussels: Confirm Pietr the Lett passed through Brussels 2 p.m. in North Star compartment as reported by Amsterdam.... Pietr was thought to be the head of an international gang, traced at various times to Paris, Amsterdam (the Van Heuvel case), Berne (the United Shipbuilders case), Warsaw (the Lipmann case), and others. [1929-30-LET] Louis Jeunet had bought a ticket to Amsterdam at the Gare du Nord [Brussels]. M followed. At Amsterdam he bought a third-class ticket for Bremen. [1930-31-PHO] The telegram from Antwerp: Isaac Goldberg, 45. Traveled weekly to Amsterdam, London, Paris. Rue de Campine, Borgerhout. married, two children. [1931-NUI] Conrad Popinga's wife, daughter of the headmaster of a lycée in Amsterdam. Good French.... The conversation in the bar was about the latest prices on the Amsterdam Bourse. [1931-HOL] M said that Gustave Cassin might be in Germany or Amsterdam. [1932-FLA] William Brown's son, Harry Brown, had come from Amsterdam. [1932-LIB] On the other side of the river was the rectangular outline of the vast concrete buildings of the Magasins Généraux and two cargo boats, from London and Amsterdam. [1933-ECL] Ferdinand Voivin said he went to Antwerp from time to time, and to Amsterdam where the main daimond markets are. [1936-BEA] The Commodore sought out his dupes in Pullman cars between Amsterdam and Paris. [1937-38-NOT] The Commodore had been in Holland, so M contacted Amsterdam, and was waiting for information from the Netherlands Police. [1946-MAL] Alfred Moss had been arrested in Manchester, Brussels, Amsterdam, Paris. In Amsterdam he'd been suspected of being a con man.... Not only in Paris and in France, but in Brussels, Amsterdam and Rome they were trying to pick up Alfred Moss' track. [1949-MME] Meyer, the cashier from the Boulevard des Italiens had been picked up in Amsterdam by the Dutch police. [1951-MEU] Janvier had visited Maria Van Aerts' boarding house, and found she wrote regularly to a friend in Amsterdam, Gertrude Oosting. [1951-GRA] A Danish report said that Hans Ziegler's real name was Julius Van Cram, a Dutchman born in Groningen, son of a good family. Went to work at 22 in an Amsterdam bank, where his father was a director. Spoke several languages, was a member of the Amsterdam Yacht Club. [1954-JEU] The operator had time to put through a call to Amsterdam while trying to reach Colonel David Ward.... At the Bristol there were phone calls from London, Cambridge, Amsterdam and Lausanne. [1957-VOY] The police had put out the alarm in Antwerp, Amsterdam and London. [1961-PAR] Norris Jonker's father, Kees Jonker, owned a bank in Holland, Jonker, Haag and Company, Amsterdam. [1963-FAN] Bérenstein said before the war the two main stonecutting centers were Antwerp and Amsterdam. [1965-PAT] There'd been one flight to Amsterdam, one to India via Geneva. [1966-NAH] Each of those people in Vichy lived quite a different life somewhere else, in Paris, Brussels, Amsterdam, Rome or Philadelphia... [1967-VIC] Émile Parendon was in conference with two clients, shipowners, one from Amsterdam, one from Athens. [1968-HES] Amsterdam, Rue d'. Mme. Antoinette Le Cloaguen came back walking from the direction of Rue d'Amsterdam, Lucas reported to M. [1941-SIG] February 2, Avenue Rachel, close to Place de Clichy, just off the brightly lit Boulevard de Clichy, Arlette Detour, 28, prostitute who lived in a cheap hotel on Rue d'Amsterdam, stabbed in the back. [1955-TEN] A policeman had seen Muriel Britt going into a bar in the Rue d'Amsterdam. [1956-ECH] Amsterdiep. Conrad Popinga's house was about half a mile from Liewens' house, also on the Amsterdiep, the canal. [1931-HOL] Anatole France. see: France, Anatole Ancelin. Judge Ancelin was the Examining Magistrate in the Manuel Palmari murder. Small, plump, very fair, tousled hair, white baby-like skin, ingenuous blue eyes. Appointed to Paris five months earlier. High-pitched voice. Seemed like a perpetual Latin Quarter student. Had spent a long time in Lille. Sloppy dresser, 6 children, 7th due in three months; old car, cheap suburban apartment [un H.L.M. d'Antony]... Magistrate Ancelin's office was at the top of the Palais de Justice, one of the offices for newcomers, that had not been modernized. [1965-PAT] Ancelin, Victor. Butcher listed as a telephone subscriber at Boissancourt-par-Saint-André. [1955-COR] Anderlecht. Betty Bruce was from Anderlecht, near Brussels. [1950-PIC] Andersen, Carl. The interrogation of Carl Andersen had lasted exactly 17 hours. [1931-NUI] Andersen, Else. Carl Andersen had said he lived with his sister Else Andersen, in a country house on the main road from Paris to Étampes, two miles from Arpajon, at the Three Widows Crossroads.... Else Andersen said her real name was Bertha Krull and she was wanted by the Copenhagen police. [1931-NUI] André. Mme M's sister had come from Alsace, and brought a bottle of plum brandy, as she always did. She was out doing errands with André, her husband, a worthy fellow who ran a brickfield, when M returned home. [1931-OMB] André Delteil. see: Delteil, André André Gide. see: Gide, André Angel. Ronald Dexter had found another handbill: Robson the Comic, Lucille the Medium, and finally, J & J. Robson had died 10 or 15 years earlier in a railroad accident. In those days Lucille had been called Angel. [1946-NEW] Angela Dodds. see: Dodds, Angela Angèle. Philippe de Lancieux had been living for some months with a prostitute named Angèle. [1961-BRA] Angèle. Mlle. The doctor about to perform the autopsy on M. Émile Gallet asked if Angèle hadn't come back yet. [1930-GAL] The waitress at the Grand Café, Angèle, 20, knew the card-players' drinks without asking. [1938-CEU] Angèle Louette. see: Louette, Angèle Angèle Sauget. see: Sauget, Angèle Angel Inn. Bernadette Amorelle told M he should stay at the Angel Inn in Orsenne, an inn run by a woman named Jeanne. [1945-FAC] Angelino. M told Bonneau that he'd seen Fred-the-Marseillais at Angelino's on Place d'Italie about three weeks earlier. [1939-MAJ] Dédé called to the waiter, Angelino, to bring another glass of wine. [1948-PRE] Angelino was the waiter at Pozzo's. [1951-LOG] Angelino Giacomi. see: Giacomi, Angelino Angelino Luppin. see: Luppin, Angelino Angelino Pozzi. see: Pozzi, Angelino Angelo. Charlot sent a telegram to Fred Masson c/o Angelo inquiring about Philippe de Moricourt: Fred Masson c/o Angelo, Rue Blanche, Paris [1949-AMI] The only people left in the Stork had been the owner, a boy called Angelo, and the cloakroom girl. [1951-MEU] Angelo Masoletti. see: Masoletti, Angelo Angelot. The Examining Magistrate was M. Angelot. Tall, young, hatless and coatless. He extended the hand of a tennis-player, the new generation. [1958-TEM] Angelus. [Millet, Jean-François, born 1814, Gruchy, near Gréville, Fr., died 1875, Barbizon. French painter renowned for his peasant subjects. The Angelus, a man and woman pausing in prayer in a field at the end of the day, was painted in 1859.] Henri Trochu was standing in front of a colored print of Millet's Angelus. [1949-DAM] Angers. Marcel Landry's father was postmaster general at Angers or Tours, or some large town on the Loire. [1964-DEF] Anglais, Promenade des. [Nice] The ebb and flow of the crowds in Vichy reminded M of the Promenade des Anglais in Nice. [1967-VIC] Angleterre, Hôtel d'. see: Hôtel d'Angleterre Angleur. The body hanging from the door-knocker was Émile Klein, 20-year-old house painter, born in Angleur. [1930-31-PHO] Anglo-Norman. Most of the postcards were addressed to the S.S. Diana, Anglo-Norman Navigation Co., Caen. [1932-POR] Angoulême. On Jan. 14, the day before the sale, there'd been two extra guests at the inn. Borchain, from near Angoulême, and Canut, from Saint-Jean-d'Angély. [1939-VEN] Angoulême, Rue d'. Lapointe had been going along Rue d'Angoulême, cutting across from one boulevard to another when he'd spotted a 'room for rent' sign. [1952-BAN] Anjou, Quai d'. The young man found stabbed in the Rue Popincourt was Antoine Batille, 21, Quai d'Anjou, on the Île Saint-Louis, not far from Pont Marie.... Philippe Lherbier's villa reminded M of the house on the Quai d'Anjou. [1969-TUE] Anna Bebelmans. see: Bebelmans, Anna Anna de Groot. see: Groot, Anna de Anna Gorskin. see: Gorskin