Signed, Picpus - Maigret

Maigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice in book twenty-three of the new Penguin Maigret series. A small, thin man, rather dull to look at, neither young nor old, exuding the stale smell of a bachelor who does not look after himself. He pulls his fingers and cracks his knuckles and tells his tale the way a schoolboy recites his lesson. A mysterious note predicting the murder of a fortune-teller; a confused old man locked in a Paris apartment; a financier who goes fishing; a South American heiress ... Maigret must make his way through a frustrating maze of clues, suspects and motives to find out what connects them. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as To Any Lengths and Maigret and the Fortuneteller . '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

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One of the greatest writers of the 20th century . . . no other writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set of characters - above all, an atmosphere John Banville Financial Times

Product details

• Authors: David Coward, Georges Simenon
• Assisted by: David Coward (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 03.09.2015
• EAN: 9780241188460
• ISBN: 978-0-241-18846-0
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Inspector Maigret; Penguin Classics; Inspector Maigret
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Belgische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Classics, Classic crime, Classic fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction