Maigret is Afraid: Inspector Maigret

ISBN-13: 9780241277485 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 176 str.

Georges Simenon

Opis

Maigret stumbles upon a series of murders in Fontenay-le-Comte while visiting an old school friend. The forty-second book in the new Penguin Maigret series.

On his way home from a conference, Maigret stops to visit an old school friend in Fontenay-le-Comte. A man in the same train car introduces himself and asks if Maigret has come to help solve the murder case. In fact, the man's brother-in-law had been murdered four days earlier, followed by the murder of a local widow in the same way, a blow to the head with a pipe. While Maigret is in town, a third murder is reported. Maigret soon discovers that there are two warring factions in the town, a clear class separation, and an air of suspicion that only he can put to rest.

Recenzje

Praise for Georges Simenon:

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

These Maigret books are as timeless as Paris itself. The Washington Post

Maigret ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals. People

I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov. William Faulkner

The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in literature. André Gide

A supreme writer . . . Unforgettable vividness. The Independent (London)

Superb . . . The most addictive of writers . . . A unique teller of tales. The Observer (London)

Compelling, remorseless, brilliant. John Gray

A truly wonderful writer . . . Marvelously readable lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the world he creates. Muriel Spark

A novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were a part of it. lle Peter Ackroyd

Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century. John Banville

"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 (London)

"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

"Gripping . . . richly rewarding . . . You'll quickly find yourself obsessing about his life as you tackle each mystery in turn."-- Stig Abell  The Sunday Times (London)

O autorze

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. He is best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.