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Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse
  • Published: 20 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241303931
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $26.00

Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse

Inspector Maigret

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When a man is found dead at home Maigret must look past the seemingly good intentions of the victim's family to figure out just who the culprit is

A retired manufacturer has been shot dead by his own pistol, last seen alive by his son-in-law. In this seemingly motiveless murder, Inspector Maigret must rely on his famous intuition to discover the truth.
  • Published: 20 August 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241303931
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 160
  • RRP: $26.00
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About the author

Georges Simenon

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.

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Maigret and the Headless Corpse
Maigret's Revolver
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Praise for Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse

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

John Banville, Financial Times

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

Boyd Tonkin, The Times

Terrific...the 75 Inspector Maigret books are almost uniformly wonderful. They are not crime or even detective fiction as ordinarily understood...they are about human foibles, moral failings and compromises, set in an evocatively atmospheric Paris

David Mills, Sunday Times

A great writer of detail, of atmosphere

Leïla Slimani, Financial Times

A genius … Simenon broke all the rules

Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph