La Vérité sur Bébé Donge

Georges Simenon

Publié par Gallimard

300 pages

Résumé

When wealthy merchant Francois Donge is poisoned with arsenic, police arrest his wife, Bebe. Throughout the ensuing investigation and trial, she keeps her composure and her own counsel while the other characters offer a Rashomon-like diversity of views about her. There are intimations of drug use and sexual ambiguity; Francois is revealed as a self-absorbed creep who treated his wife like a piece of furniture, engaged in repeated infidelities and neglected their child. Had the abused spouse reached the end of her tether? Did she fear that Francois's latest mistress would lure him away, depriving her of the marriage's only benefits--wealth and position? In the end, the only answer not provided is the one promised by the title: there is no ultimate truth about Bebe Donge.

Cécile est morte

L'Amie De Mme Maigret

Tout Simenon, Tome 10: Le Veuf / Maigret aux Assises / L'ours en Peluche / Maigret et les Vieillards / Betty

Maignet aux Etats-Unis - Maigret à New-York ; Maigret chez le coroner

Le cheval blanc

Le Petit Homme D'arkhangelsk

La Prison

Le Pendu De Saint Pholien

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