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The Grand Banks Café - Maigret

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b>b>b>“One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” --The Guardian/b>/b>br>/b>br>b>In this gripping novel set in an insular fishing community, Inspector Maigret must navigate an impenetrable subculture to solve a murder/b>br>br>“It was indeed a photograph, a picture of a woman. But the face was completely hidden, scribbled all over in red ink. Someone had tried to obliterate the head, someone very angry. The pen had bitten into the paper. There were so many criss-crossed lines that not a single square millimetre had been left visible. On the other hand, below the head, the torso had not been touched. A pair of large breasts. A light-coloured silk dress, very tight and very low cut.”br>br>Sailors don’t talk much to other men, especially not to policemen. But after Captain Fallut’s body is found floating near his trawler, they all mention the Evil Eye when they speak of the Ocean’s voyage.

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Georges Simenon (Author)
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.

David Coward (Translator)
David Coward is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Leeds and has translated many books from French for Penguin Classics.


Product details

Authors David Coward, Georges Simenon, Simenon Georges
Assisted by David Coward (Translation)
Publisher Penguin Books Uk
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 05.06.2014
 
EAN 9780141393506
ISBN 978-0-14-139350-6
No. of pages 160
Dimensions 133 mm x 200 mm x 10 mm
Series Inspector Maigret
Penguin Classics
Inspector Maigret
Subjects Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage

Belgische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Classic fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction

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