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Felicie (#25 aka Maigret and the Toy Village) by Georges Simenon; David Coward (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 A story of love and obsession featuring a most memorable femme fatale, starring the int ...Show more
Inspector Cadaver by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret
Maigret's old colleague becomes an unexpected rival in book twenty-four of the new Penguin Maigret series.In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare after they had passed him, he was the intruder, the undesirable. No, wo ...Show more
Inspector Maigret: Omnibus 2 by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime & Adventure
The second annual omnibus edition includes four memorable titles from the past year of Maigret publishing- The Saint-Fiacre Affair(the one where Maigret goes back to the place of his birth), The Misty Harbour (the one where Maigret is left tied up on a rainy quayside all night), Maigret(the one where Ma ...Show more
Inspector Maigret Omnibus: No. 1 by Georges Simenon
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
This is the first annual omnibus edition in the new Penguin Inspector Maigret series, comprising four titles from the series so far: Pietr the Latvian, The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien, The Carter of La Providence and The Grand Banks Cafe. Additional material includes the original French first edition co ...Show more
Letter to My Mother (Mini Modern Classics) by Georges Simenon
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Mini Modern Classics
As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in this stark, confessional piece.
Liberty Bar (Maigret #17) by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret
This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's devastating novel set on the French Riviera, book seventeen in the new Penguin Maigret series. It had a smell of holidays. The previous evening, in Cannes harbour, with the setting sun, had also had the smell of holidays, especially the Ardena, whose owner ...Show more
Lock 14 by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers
A canal worker stumbles across the strangled body of Mary Lampson in a stable near Lock 14. The dead woman's husband seems unmoved by her death. But gradually Maigret is able to piece together their story. Can the answer to this crime be found aboard the yacht? Or is the murderer among the bargees, cart ...Show more
Lock No. 1 by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret
This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's novel set in claustraphobic provincial town, book eighteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realised that they were not important. Whatever roared by like this along the road was not ...Show more