A new selection of stories featuring the celebrated literary detective, Inspector Maigret
Georges Simenon (Author)
Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, 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.
Ros Schwartz (Translator)
Ros Schwartz is an award-winning translator from French. Acclaimed
for her new version of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little
Prince, published in 2010, she has over 100 fiction and non-fiction
titles to her name.
The French government made Ros a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et
des Lettres in 2009, and in 2017 she was awarded the Institute of
Translation and Interpreting's John Sykes Memorial Prize for
Excellence.
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.
*Financial Times*
Simenon's supreme virtue as a novelist, to burrow beneath the
surface of his characters' behaviour; to empathise . . . it is this
unfailing humanity that makes the Maigret books truly worth
reading
*Guardian*
Gem-hard soul-probes . . . not just the world's bestselling
detective series, but an imperishable literary legend . . . he
exposes secrets and crimes not by forensic wizardry, but by the
melded powers of therapist, philosopher and confessor
*Times*
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