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  • Published: 3 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241304334
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

Maigret's Madwoman

Inspector Maigret





An old woman's cries for help are left unanswered in this gripping story

A kind but seemingly paranoid old lady turns to Inspector Maigret for help. Against the judgement of his subordinates, he decides to pay a visit to her Parisian apartment to investigate, but is he already too late?

  • Published: 3 October 2019
  • ISBN: 9780241304334
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 176

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Praise for Maigret's Madwoman

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