Felicie - 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>A story of love and obsession featuring a most memorable femme fatale, starring the intrepid Inspector Maigret/b>br> br> Peg Leg Lapie, a crusty old sailor, is found mysteriously murdered in a most incongruous setting: a picturesque cottage near Paris, where he lived attended only by his young housekeeper, Félicie. But Lapie was not alone--Maigret, chief inspector of the Paris police, is sure of it. A man at work in his garden, wearing clogs and a straw hat, does not suddenly drop his tools to go indoors and fetch a bottle of brandy to drink alone in the summerhouse. There must have been another glass that someone removed. But Félicie, in her red hat trimmed with an iridescent feather, proves a champion adversary, as skilled in innuendo and evasion as Maigret is in deduction.

Commentaire

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

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: David Coward, Georges Simenon
• Collaboration: David Coward (Traduction)
• Edition: Penguin Books Uk
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Poche format B
• Sortie: 05.11.2015
• EAN: 9780241188668
• ISBN: 978-0-241-18866-8
• Pages: 160
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 9 mm
• Thèmes: Penguin Classics; Inspector Maigret; Penguin Classics; Inspector Maigret
• Catégories: Littérature > Littérature (récits); Belgische SchriftstellerInnen: Werke (div.), FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Crime, Classic crime, Classic fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction