In Simenon's first novel featuring Maigret, the laconic detective is taken from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he follows a trail of bodies and traces the true identity of the elusive international criminal, Pietr the Latvian.
Georges Simenon (Author)
Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, Belgium, in 1903. He is best
known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his
prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him
a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in
Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of
his life.
David Bellos (Translator)
David Bellos is Meredith Howland Pyne Professor of French
Literature at Princeton University, where he also teaches
Comparative Literature. He is the author of many books and articles
on nineteenth-century fiction, alongside biographies of three icons
of French culture in the twentieth century- Georges Perec, Jacques
Tati and Romain Gary. He is also a well-known translator and the
author of Is That a Fish in Your Ear? The Amazing Adventure of
Translation. David Bellos was recently awarded the rank of officier
in the Ordre National des Arts et des Lettres for his services to
French culture.
Gem-hard soul-probes . . . not just the world's bestselling
detective series, but an imperishable literary legend . . . he
exposes secrets and crimes not by forensic wizardry, but by the
melded powers of therapist, philosopher and confessor
*Times*
Strangely comforting . . . so many lovely bistros from the Paris of
mid-20th C. The corpses are incidental, it's the food that
counts.
*Margaret Atwood*
One of the greatest writers of the 20th century . . . no other
writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as
Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set
of characters - above all, an atmosphere.
*Financial Times*
Simenon's supreme virtue as a novelist, to burrow beneath the
surface of his characters' behaviour; to empathise . . . it is this
unfailing humanity that makes the Maigret books truly worth
reading.
*Guardian*
Gripping . . . richly rewarding . . . You'll quickly find yourself
obsessing about his life as you tackle each mystery in turn
*The Sunday Times*
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