Maigret's Failure - Inspector Maigret

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>br>When a childhood bully reappears in Maigret’s life, he struggles to put aside his own feelings and carry out his duties as an investigator.br>/b>br> When Ferdinand Fumal, a wealthy butcher and political influencer, starts receiving anonymous death threats, he fears for his life, and Maigret is ordered to his protection. But upon meeting the man, Maigret realizes that Fumal was among the childhood bullies who tormented him as a boy. Maigret’s instinct is to pawn the job off on another officer--until Fumal turns up the next morning brutally slain that is. Racked with guilt, Maigret finds himself being blamed for the murder, and so must go about the agonizing task of bringing the murdered butcher’s killer to justice.

About the 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.

Product details

• Authors: Will Hobson, William Hobson, Georges Simenon
• Assisted by: William Hobson (Translation), Hobson William (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.11.2017
• EAN: 9780241303788
• ISBN: 978-0-241-30378-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: 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, police; murder; paris; france; crime fiction; classic crime