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The Flemish House by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret
This is a new translation of this chilling novel, set on the Belgian border. Book fourteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. She wasn't an ordinary supplicant. She didn't lower her eyes. There was nothing humble about her bearing. She spoke frankly, looking straight ahead, as if to claim what was right ...Show more
The Grand Banks Cafe by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret
A new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping novel set in an insular fishing community, book eight in the new Penguin Maigret series. It was indeed a photograph, a picture of a woman. But the face was completely hidden, scribbled all over in red ink. Someone had tried to obliterate the head, someone ...Show more
The Hand by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"Dan said he would go back out into the snowstorm to look for Ray. Instead he has spent the last few hours on a red bench in the barn, smoking cigarette after cigarette. As he replays his memories of recent months, of the dinner party that evening in Connecticut and the journey home with their wives, hi ...Show more
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien: Inspector Maigret #3 by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret
Georges Simenon's haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, translated by Linda Coverdale as part of the new Penguin Maigret series. A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other ...Show more
The Hatter's Ghosts by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime
A masterful tale of murder and intrigue in a small French town, from the celebrated author of the Maigret seriesNot only had the rain in the dark streets, with a halo around each light and reflections on the ground, always given him a certain thrill, it also made it easier for him to move around.It has ...Show more
The Judge's House by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret
Exiled from Paris, Maigret discovers some disturbing secrets in a sleepy coastal town in this new translation, book twenty-two in the new Penguin Maigret series. He went out, lit his pipe and walked slowly to the harbour. He could hear scurrying footsteps behind him. The sea was becoming swollen. The be ...Show more
The Krull House by Georges Simenon; Howard Curtis (Translator)
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough ... or else that you are too foreign Just as the Krull house sits on the edge of a rural French town, the family occupies a marginal place in the life of the community around them. Snubbed by the locals despite having lived there ...Show more
The Late Monsieur Gallet by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
George Simenon's devastating tale of misfortune, betrayal and the weakness of family ties, translated by Anthea Bell as part of the new Penguin Maigret series. Instead of the detail filling itself in and becoming clearer, it seemed to escape him. The face of the man in the ill-fitting coat just misted u ...Show more
The Little Man from Archangel by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime
'A unique teller of tales ... What interested Simenon was the average man losing control of his own fate' Observer'She was beautiful, full of vitality, and he was sixteen years older, a dusty, lonely bookseller whose only passion in life was collecting stamps.'Jonas is used to his young wife disappearin ...Show more
The Madman of Bergerac (Maigret #15) by Georges Simenon; Ros Schwartz (Translator)
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Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
A new translation of Simenon's tense novel, book sixteen in the Maigret series. "He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep--was it really sleep?--his sighs and his sobbing. Then the two dangling legs, the patent-leather shoes and hand-knitted socks.... An insipid face. Glazed eyes. And Maigr ...Show more
The Mahe Circle by Georges Simenon; Sian Reynolds (Translator)
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first English publication of Georges Simenon's compelling novel about summer escape and elusive obsessions. 'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son's bed, the deafening sound of cicadas' During his first holiday on the island of Porquerolles D ...Show more
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret
A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces. 'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion ...disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers' Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family ...Show more