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The Man who Watched Trains Go by by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Kees Popinga is the most average of men, a solid citizen of the good city of Groningen where decent people divert themselves with a game of chess at the non-alcoholic bar. But one night this middle manager, model husband, and devoted father of two finds out that his boss is bankrupt and that his own car ...Show more
The Misty Harbour (Maigret #16) by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret
This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. This is the book sixteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he remains mute...A madman? In Maigret's o ...Show more
The New Investigations of Inspector Maigret by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers
A gripping new translation of the iconic short story collection featuring Simenon's celebrated literary detective'The truth was, Maigret knew nothing! Maigret felt. Maigret was sure he was right, would have bet his life on it. But in vain he'd turned the problem over a hundred times in his head, in vain ...Show more
The People Opposite by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers
An extraordinary tale of betrayal from the celebrated author of the Maigret series On the shore of the Black Sea, on the edge of the Soviet Union, a little city has a new Turkish consul. Adil Bey - alone in an alien land - has taken the job after the mysterious death of his predecessor. Receiving only ...Show more
The Pitards by Georges Simenon
Category: Classic | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'Read him at your peril, avoid him at your loss' Sunday TimesCaptain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards - and they've never let him forget it. When his temperamental wife Mathilde insists on coming along on the ship's first voyage, Lanne ...Show more
The President by SIMENON GEORGES
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Neversink Ser.
Restored to print for the first time in more than forty years, The President was hailed by the New York Times as a "tour de force" At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement--self exile--on the Normandy coast, writing his anxiously anticipated memoirs and receiving visits from st ...Show more
The Saint-Fiacre Affair by Georges Simenon; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The Guardian Maigret's past comes to life in this evocative novel, set in the Inspector's hometown " ...Show more
The Shadow Puppet by Georges Simenon; Ros Schwartz (Translator)
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
A new translation of this gripping domestic tragedy, set in Simenon's very own neighbourhood. Book twelve in the new Penguin Maigret series. One by one the lighted windows went dark. The silhouette of the dead man could still be seen through the frosted glass like a Chinese shadow puppet. A taxi pulled ...Show more
The Snow Was Dirty by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece. 'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that look rotten, with black patches and embedded garbage ...unable to cover the filth.' Nineteen-year-old Frank - thug, thief, son of a brothel owner - gets by surprisingly well desp ...Show more
The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon
Category: Fiction
'Quite simply a masterpiece' John Banville'I've just found a stranger in my house. In a bed on the second floor. He was dying when I got there. You're going to have to deal with it'Hector Loursat has been a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years ago. Shut away in his dilapidated mansion ...Show more
The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon
Category: Fiction | Series: New York Review Books Classics
Dirty, drunk, unloved, and unloving, Hector Loursat has been a bitter recluse for eighteen long years--ever since his wife abandoned him and their newborn child to run off with another man. Once a successful lawyer, Loursat now guzzles burgundy and buries himself in books, taking little notice of his te ...Show more
The Train by Georges Simenon
Category: Fiction
Against all expectations, Marcel Fron has made a normal life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes. But on May 10, 1940, as Nazi tanks approach, this timid, happy man must abandon his home and confront the 'Fate' that he has secretly awaited. Separated from his pregnant wife and young daughter in t ...Show more