Paris comes under siege when someone starts killing women on the streets one summer
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When one of his best inspectors is shot Maigret decides to book himself into Mademoiselle Clement's well-kept Paris boarding house nearby in order to find the culprit' What he thought he had discovered in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed was an irony which was neither less cheerful nor less childish but which troubled him He wondered now if his exultation wasn't down to the fact that she was playing a part not just to deceive him not just to hide something from him but for the pleasure of acting a part' Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations' 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 supreme writer unforgettable vividness' Independent ...

The attempted suicide of a countess & the death of a billionaire in the same luxury Paris hotel send Maigret to the Riviera ...

NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMA STARRING ROWAN ATKINSONMaigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series' That shoeless foot looked incongruous lying on the pavement next to another foot encased in a shoe made from black kid leather It was naked private It was Maigret who retrieved the other shoe which lay by the kerb six or seven metres away'A series of strange phone calls leads Inspector Maigret through the Paris streets towards a man out of his depth amid a network of merciless criminals Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret's Special Murder' 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 supreme writer unforgettable vividness' Independent ...

First published in French as La Patience de Maigret by Presses de la Citae 1965 176 pages Simenon Georges ...

When a self-made man appeals to Maigret for protection at his lavish home a years-old grudge from the past resurfaces & the inspector finds himself questioning his own motives Conflict rather than harmony probably reigned in eight out of ten of the still magnificent houses that surrounded the park But he had rarely had the opportunity to breath such a strained atmosphere as the one between these walls Everything seemed fake grating starting with the lodge of the concierge-cum-manservant who was neither a concierge nor a manservant despite his striped waistcoat but a former poacher a murderer turned guard dog Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations' 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 sparkling new translation of this flashback to the start of Inspector Maigret's career part of the new Penguin Maigret series The profession he had always yearned for did not actually exist he imagined a cross between a doctor & a priest a man capable of understanding another's destiny at first glance The very first investigation by eager young police secretary Jules Maigret leads him to a wealthy Paris family's dark secrets Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations' 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 supreme writer unforgettable vividness' Independent ...

Maigret sets the record straight & tells the story of his own life giving a rare glimpse into the mind of the great inspector
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In book forty-three Maigret's fascination with a charismatic brain surgeon nearly blinds him to the truth at the heart of a case involving a mysterious young woman in a luxury Paris apartment block' Maigret had questioned thousands tens of thousands of people in the course of his career some occupying important positions others who were more famous for their wealth & others still who were considered the most intelligent of international criminals Yet he attached an importance to this interrogation he had attached to no previous interrogation & it wasn't Gouin's social position that overawed him or his worldwide fame' Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations ' 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 ...

When Maigret's prized gun goes missing he must travel to London on the trail of a troubled young man on the run Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations ' 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 supreme writer unforgettable vividness' Independent ...