The Cellars of the Majestic - Maigret

The dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris is brought to life in this new translation, book twenty-one in the new Penguin Maigret series. 'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess . . . In a suite that costs more than a thousand francs a day . . . At six in the morning, she's strangled, not in her room, but in the basement locker room' Below stairs at a glamorous hotel on the Champs-elysees, the workers' lives are worlds away from the luxury enjoyed by the wealthy guests. When their worlds meet, Maigret discovers a tragic story of ambition, blackmail and unrequited love. 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 Hotel Majestic . '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

Product details

• Authors: Howard Curtis, Georges Simenon
• Assisted by: Howard Curtis (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.07.2015
• EAN: 9780241188446
• ISBN: 978-0-241-18844-6
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Inspector Maigret; Penguin Classics; Inspector Maigret
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Belgische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Classics, Classic crime, Classic fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction