Author: Georges SimenonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, French
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Five Times Maigret
Author: Georges SimenonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, French
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
Five Times Maigret. Maigret Right and Wrong Maigret in Montmartre & Maigret's Mistake ; Maigret Has Scruples; Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses ; Maigret Goes to School
Author: Five Times Maigret
Author: Georges SimenonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, French
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Maigret and the Madwoman
Author: Georges SimenonPublisher: Harvest Books
ISBN: 9780156551229
Category : Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon.
Maigret and the Ghost
Author: Georges SimenonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0241304040
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
During an undercover case Inspector Lognon is shot in a room he was sharing with a beautiful woman who has since disappeared. Inspector Maigret retraces Lognon's secretive last few days and is drawn into the darker side of the art world. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret and the Apparition. 'His artistry is supreme' John Banville 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian
A Man's Head
Author: Georges SimenonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440649235
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Set in the oppressively squalid streets of Paris, A Man's Head features Simenon's famed detective as he tracks a killer on the run, while the writer's sharp prose evokes the atmosphere of Parisian luxury hotels, seedy bars, and dark alleys.
Maigret, Simenon and France
Author: Bill AlderPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476601062
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was a phenomenally successful author of crime fiction. His 75 Maigret novels and 28 Maigret short stories were published between 1931 and 1972 to great international acclaim (he is the only non-anglophone crime writer to have achieved such renown). His Maigret stories are regarded by many as having established a new direction in crime fiction, emphasizing social and psychological portraiture rather than focussing on a puzzle to be solved or on "action." This book examines the importance of social class and social change in the Maigret stories, giving a particular emphasis to the early formative novels and the development of plot, characterization and setting. The author seeks to establish the extent to which Simenon's portrait of French society is historically accurate and the nature of the influence of the author's own class position and ideology on his fiction.
Pietr the Latvian
Author: Georges SimenonPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141976578
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
The first novel which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man. His firm muscles filled out his jacket and quickly pulled all his trousers out of shape. He had a way of imposing himself just by standing there. His assertive presence had often irked many of his own colleagues. In Simenon's first novel featuring Maigret, the laconic detective is taken from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he traces the true identity of Pietr the Latvian. This novel has been published in previous translations as The Case of Peter the Lett and Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century' Guardian
A Maigret Omnibus. Comprising Maigret Right and Wrong (Maigret in Montmartre & Maigret's Mistake) Maigret Has Scruples; Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses; Maigret Goes to School
Author: Georges SimenonMy Friend Maigret
Author: Georges SimenonPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101201908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Three vintage Maigret novels by legendary mystery author Georges Simenon One of the world 's most successful crime writers, Georges Simenon has thrilled mystery lovers since 1931 with his matchless creation Inspector Maigret. In My Friend Maigret, Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a small- time crook on a Mediterranean island. Told in Simenon's spare, unsentimental prose, Inspector Cadaver is a haunting exploration of provincial hypocrisy and snobbery, in which Maigret encounters a rival sleuth from his past. In Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard, Simenon's tenacious detective pieces together the life of a man who for three years lived a secret life-until he is found stabbed to death in an alleyway.