The last novel in Simenon's celebrated series.
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.
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*
Strangely comforting . . . so many lovely bistros from the Paris of
mid-20th C. The corpses are incidental, it's the food that
counts.
*Margaret Atwood*
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*
Terrific...the 75 Inspector Maigret books are almost uniformly
wonderful. They are not crime or even detective fiction as
ordinarily understood...they are about human foibles, moral
failings and compromises, set in an evocatively atmospheric
Paris
*Sunday Times*
A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness
*Independent*
The most addictive of writers . . . a unique teller of tales
*Observer*
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