Browse by category
A Crime in Holland (Maigret #7) by Georges Simenon; Sian Reynolds (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 Georges Simenon's thoughtful mystery set in a tranquil town on the Dutch coast " ...Show more
A Maigret Christmas by Georges Simenon
Category: Fiction
This seasonal collection of short stories brings together three separate cases involving murder, break-ins and a missing child - all set in Paris at Christmastime
A Maigret Christmas: And Other Stories by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret
It is Christmas in Paris, but beneath the sparkling lights and glittering decorations lie sinister deeds and dark secrets. In the short story that lends its title to the volume, the Inspector receives two unexpected visitors on Christmas Day, who lead him on the trail of a mysterious intruder dressed in ...Show more
A Man's Head by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Set in the in the atmospheric and squalid streets of Paris, Maigret sets out to prove the innocence of a man condemned to death for a brutal murder. In another one of Maigret's unconventional and audacious plans, he arranges the escape of the condemned man in an attempt to prove his theory. The presumed ...Show more
A Man's Head by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret
A new translation of Georges Simenon's atmospheric novel set in the bustling streets of Paris, book nine in the new Penguin Maigret series.Slowly the Czech was becoming animated, but in a muted way, so typical of the man. Maigret now noticed his hands, which were long, surprisingly white and dotted with ...Show more
Betty by Georges Simenon
Category: Fiction
A searing exploration of a woman's hidden destructive impulses from one of the great writers of the twentieth century'There was no longer that ambivalent inconsistency between her words and thoughts, no more fever, no more artificial heat, no more vagueness. Instead was the truth in all its rawness, in ...Show more
Cecile is Dead by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret
A new translation of this moving novel about the destructive power of greed, this is book twenty in the new Penguin Maigret series. Poor Cecile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult to look more like an old maid, to move less ...Show more
Death Threats: And Other Stories by Georges Simenon
Category: Crime and Thrillers
A new selection of stories featuring the celebrated literary detective, Inspector MaigretAn ageing boxer caught in a love triangle. A wealthy Parisian family on the brink of collapse. A mysterious murder in a hotel in Cannes.These tales of human frailty and deceit - three of which are being published in ...Show more
Dirty Snow by Simenon Georges
Category: Fiction
Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get by; Frank takes it easy in his mother's whorehouse, which caters to members of the occupying forces. But Frank is restless. He is a pimp, a thug, a petty thief, and, as Dirty Snow opens, he has just kille ...Show more