NOW A MAJOR ITV DRAMAA young cabaret dancer in a black silk dress leads Maigret into a seamy world of nightclubs drug addiction & exploitation on the streets of Montmartre' He opened the door for her & watched her walk away down the huge corridor then hesitate at the top of the stairs Heads turned as she passed You sensed she came from a different world the world of the night & there was something almost indecent about her in the harsh light of a winter's day' Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret & the Strangled Stripper & Maigret in Montmartre' 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 ...

Inspector Maigret is meant to be taking a holiday but he can't resist following the development of his colleague Janvier's case in the papers
- & playing a few tricks on the way Standing here at the window in the middle of the morning vaguely observing the comings & goings in the street he had a feeling that reminded of certain days in his childhood when his mother was still alive & he was off school because he had the 'flu or it was the end of term It was the feeling of finding out 'what went on when he wasn't there' Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret's Little Joke' 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'
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Maigret is cajoled out of retirement by a case involving an old classmate in book twenty-six of the new Penguin Maigret series All that was still unclear for sure Ernest Malik had been right when he had looked at Maigret with a smile that was a mixture of sarcasm & contempt This wasn't a case for him He was out of his depth This world was unfamiliar to him & he had difficulty piecing it all together Peacefully tending his garden in the countryside Maigret is called upon to investigate a rich family with skeletons in their cupboard
- & finds himself confronted by lies snobbery & malice Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret in Retirement' 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
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When a school teacher from a small coastal town near La Rochelle asks Maigret to help prove he is innocent of murder the Inspector returns with him to his insular community & finds the residents closing ranks to conceal the truth' What was he doing there? A hundred times in the middle of an investigation he'd had the same feeling of helplessness or rather futility He would find himself abruptly plunged into the lives of people he had never met before & his job was to discover their most intimate secrets This time as it happened it wasn't even his job He was the one who had chosen to come because a teacher had waited for him for hours in the Purgatory at the Police Judiciaire' Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations ' His artistry is supreme' John Banville ...

Maigret's first impressions of the USA colour this sparkling new translation book twenty-seven of the new Penguin Maigret series What was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully? Little John had cold eyes! Four or five times in his life he had met people with cold eyes those eyes that can stare at you without establishing any human contact Persuaded to sail to New York by a fearful young law student Maigret finds himself drawn into the city's underworld & a wealthy businessman's closely guarded past Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations' Compelling remorseless brilliant' John Gray' 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 ...

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 ...