Signed, Picpus: Inspector Maigret - Couverture souple

Simenon, Georges

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0241188466 ISBN 13 : 9780241188460

Editeur : Penguin Classics, 2015

Synopsis

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray

A small, thin man, rather dull to look at, neither young nor old, exuding the stale smell of a bachelor who does not look after himself. He pulls his fingers and cracks his knuckles and tells his tale the way a schoolboy recites his lesson.

A mysterious note predicting the murder of a fortune-teller; a confused old man locked in a Paris apartment; a financier who goes fishing; a South American heiress ... Maigret must make his way through a frustrating maze of clues, suspects and motives to find out what connects them.

Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as To Any Lengths and Maigret and the Fortuneteller.

'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian

'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Georges Simenon (Author)
Georges Simenon was born in Liège, 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.

David Coward (Translator)
David Coward is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Leeds and has translated many books from French for Penguin Classics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin Classics
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0241188466
• ISBN 13: 9780241188460
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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