A new selection of stories featuring the celebrated literary detective, Inspector Maigret
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.
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*
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*
Compelling...tense...readers will surely race through each story
with relish
*Evening Standard*
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