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The Man from London by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime
On a foggy winter's evening in Dieppe, after the arrival of the daily ferry from England, a railway signalman habitually scrutinizes the port from his tiny, isolated cabin. When a scuffle on the quayside catches his eye, he is drawn to the scene of a brutal murder and his once quiet life changes forever ...Show more
The Misty Harbour (Maigret #16) by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret
This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. This is the book sixteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he remains mute...A madman? In Maigret's o ...Show more
The President by SIMENON GEORGES
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Category: Crime | Series: Neversink Ser.
Restored to print for the first time in more than forty years, The President was hailed by the New York Times as a "tour de force" At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement--self exile--on the Normandy coast, writing his anxiously anticipated memoirs and receiving visits from st ...Show more
The Saint-Fiacre Affair by Georges Simenon; Shaun Whiteside (Translator)
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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 Guardian Maigret's past comes to life in this evocative novel, set in the Inspector's hometown " ...Show more
The Shadow Puppet by Georges Simenon; Ros Schwartz (Translator)
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Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
A new translation of this gripping domestic tragedy, set in Simenon's very own neighbourhood. Book twelve in the new Penguin Maigret series. One by one the lighted windows went dark. The silhouette of the dead man could still be seen through the frosted glass like a Chinese shadow puppet. A taxi pulled ...Show more
The Snow Was Dirty by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
A brilliant new translation of Simenon's critically acclaimed masterpiece. 'And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that look rotten, with black patches and embedded garbage ...unable to cover the filth.' Nineteen-year-old Frank - thug, thief, son of a brothel owner - gets by surprisingly well desp ...Show more
The Two-Penny Bar by Georges Simenon; David Watson (Translator)
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Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
A forgotten crime comes to light in the Parisian summer in Georges Simenon's twisted tale. Book eleven in the new Penguin Maigret series. 'A radiant late afternoon. The sunshine almost as thick as syrup in the quiet streets of the Left Bank . . . there are days like this, when ordinary life seems he ...Show more
The Venice Train by Georges Simenon
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Category: Classics
'There were some weeks that were painful, nerve-racking. At the office or at home, in the middle of a meal, he would suddenly find his forehead bathed in sweat, a tightness in his chest, and at those times, feeling everyone's eyes on him was unbearable.'During a chance meeting on the train from Venice t ...Show more
The Widow Couderc by Georges Simenon; Sian Reynolds (Translator); Siân Reynolds (Translator)
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Category: Crime
'Sensuously detailed . . . edgy . . . riveting' Financial TimesTwo strangers meet on a bus along a dusty road in rural France. Tati is a tough, work-worn widow, who runs the farm her late husband left behind, while trying to keep out of the way of her predatory in-laws. Jean is an odd, quiet man, recent ...Show more
The Yellow Dog: Inspector Maigret #5 by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime | Series: Inspector Maigret
This is the fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, in Linda Asher's timeless translation. There was an exaggerated humility about her. Her cowed eyes, her way of gliding noiselessly about without bumping into things, of quiverin ...Show more
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime
A recently divorced actor and a no less lonely woman meet by chance in a New York diner. The city - its bars, its cheap motels, and its rented rooms - becomes the cinematic setting of the couple's escalating and mysterious relationship. A move against desperation and drift, their affair nevertheless glo ...Show more
When I Was Old by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty'. Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', ...Show more