Maigret at Picratt's - Maigret

<''Compelling, remorseless, brilliant'' John Gray

''He opened the door for her and 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, and there was something almost indecent about her in the harsh light of a winter''s day''

A young cabaret dancer in a black silk dress leads Maigret into a seamy world of nightclubs, drug addiction and exploitation on the streets of Montmartre.

This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret and the Strangled Stripper and Maigret in Montmartre.

''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<>

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Will Hobson, William Hobson, Georges Simenon
• Mitarbeit: Will Hobson (Übersetzung), William Hobson (Übersetzung), Hobson William (Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Penguin Books Uk
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.10.2016
• EAN: 9780241240281
• ISBN: 978-0-241-24028-1
• Seiten: 176
• Abmessung: 198 mm x 129 mm x 11 mm
• Serien: Penguin Classics; Inspector Maigret; Penguin Classics; Inspector Maigret
• Themen: Belletristik > Spannung > Krimis, Thriller, Spionage; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Crime, France, Classic crime, Classic fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Maigret in Montmartre; Rowan Atkinson; ITV