Maigret and the Headless Corpse

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 Guardianbr>/b>br>A man’s dismembered body is found in a canal, and only Maigret can uncover the killer/b>br>br> When a man’s headless body is discovered in Paris’s Saint-Martin Canal, Maigret is quick to answer the call. It is in this very neighborhood that he meets a strangely taciturn woman who runs a cafe. Her husband is away on a trip--or so she says. As is often the case, Maigret soon learns that there is more to the story than meets the eye.br>br>As shocking as it is incisive, Maigret and the Headless Corpse is a compelling mystery from Georges Simenon.

Product details

• Authors: Howard Curtis, Georges Simenon, Georges/ Curtis Simenon, Simenon Georges
• Assisted by: Howard Curtis (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2017
• EAN: 9780241297261
• ISBN: 978-0-241-29726-1
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 197 mm x 11 mm
• Series: Inspector Maigret; Penguin Classics; Inspector Maigret
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Crime, France, Fiction in translation, Classic fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, murder; paris; detective; france; classic crime