Maigret and the Man on the Bench - Inspector Maigret: Volume 41

b>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>/b>br>br>Inspector Maigret must untangle the web of lies left behind by a murdered man whose family didn’t know him as well as they thoughtbr>/b>br> When a man is found stabbed to death in an alley off Boulevard Saint-Martin, his identity card shows a workplace that had gone out of business three years earlier. As far as his wife knew, he still worked there, and she insists that the shoes and a tie he was wearing when he was killed “couldn’t be his.” It soon becomes evident that although he had a source of income, he spent most of his time sitting on a bench in the neighborhood, often with the same unknown man. But can Maigret find this mysterious companion?br>br>In Maigret and the Man on the Bench, the inimitable inspector must untangle the web of a dead man’s lies that go deeper than anyone could have imagined.

Product details

• Authors: Georges Simenon, David Watson
• Assisted by: David Watson (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 02.03.2017
• EAN: 9780241277447
• ISBN: 978-0-241-27744-7
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Penguin Classics; Inspector Maigret; Penguin Classics; Inspector Maigret
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Belgische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Crime, France, Fiction in translation, Classic fiction