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Mr Hire's Engagement by Georges Simenon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution and betrayal. 'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone, nothing but soft, flaccid matter, so much so that his movements were hard to make out. Very red lips stood out from his orb-like face, as did the thin moustache that he curled with a ...Show more
My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret
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My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon
$23.00 AUD
Category: Classics
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics- irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithGeorges Simenon's brilliant pipe-smoking detective, Jules Maigret, is one of the most beloved literary creation ...Show more
My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon
$12.95 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Maigret is going about his work in rainy Paris, followed around by Inspector Pyke who has come from Scotland Yard to study the famous French detective's methods. Routine is disturbed when Maigret receives a telephone call from the island of Porquerolles off the Mediterranean coast. A small-time crook ha ...Show more
Night at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret
This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's sensational tale of deceit and back-stabbing in an isolated community, book six in the new Penguin Maigret series. 'She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light. She came forward like a film star, or rather like the ideal woman in ...Show more
Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon; David Bellos (Translator)
$15.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"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 GuardianIn Simenon's iconic first novel featuring Inspector Maigret, the laconic detective is tak ...Show more
Pitards: PMC The by Simenon, Georges
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A superb new translation by David Bellos of Simenon's haunting, rediscovered masterpiece After many years spent at sea, Captain Lannec finally manages to buy his own vessel, but not without the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards. In return, his wife insists on accompanying him on the ship's fir ...Show more
Signed, Picpus by Georges Simenon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret
Maigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice in book twenty-three of the new Penguin Maigret series. 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 h ...Show more
The Blue Room by Georges Simenon
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret
This is a new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust. It was all real: himself, the room, Andree still lying on the ravaged bed. For Tony and Andree, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the Hotel des Voyageurs. Their ...Show more
The Carter of 'La Providence' by Georges Simenon
$16.99 AUD
Category: Kids | Series: Inspector Maigret
The fourth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's tragic tale of lost identity, in a gripping new translation by David Coward. What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there ...Show more
The Cellars of the Majestic: Inspector Maigret #21 by Georges Simenon
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret
The dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris is brought to life in this new translation, book twenty-one in the new Penguin Maigret series. 'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess ...In a suite that costs more than a thousand ...Show more
The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin by Georges Simenon
$20.00 AUD
Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret
The city of Simenon's youth comes to life in this new translation of this disturbing novel set in Liege, book ten in the new Penguin Maigret series. In the darkness, the main room is as vast as a cathedral. A great empty space. Some warmth is still seeps from the radiators. Delfosse strikes a match. The ...Show more