Maigret and the Old People

Maigret and the Old People
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0525504095

“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré When a wealthy aristocrat is found murdered in his home, Inspector Maigret must navigate a high-stakes case in the moneyed world of Paris’s upper crust Maigret is called to the home of Armand de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected diplomat who has been found by his housekeeper, shot dead in his study. Maigret is urged to be discrete in his investigation, but after interviewing everyone concerned, the inspector is at a loss to the identity of the perpetrator—until he comes across a series of letters spanning decades between the victim and a widowed woman. As Maigret uncovers the details behind the pair’s relationship, he gets closer to discovering the tragic truth behind the official’s demise. With the pressure mounting, the inspector must navigate class divides and his own position in society to uncover the killer. Maigret and the Old People is an absorbing mystery and a thoughtful examination of the different worlds money creates.

The Man who Wasn't Maigret

The Man who Wasn't Maigret
Author: Patrick Marnham
Publisher:
Total Pages: 346
Release: 1993
Genre: Novelists, Belgian
ISBN: 9780140139273

'Penetrating, fully researched and very well written. It describes this extraordinarily productive literary genius at all stages of his life and adds to an understanding not only of Simenon's art, but the art of the novel itself.' - Muriel Spark in Scotland on Sunday

Maigret and the Madwoman

Maigret and the Madwoman
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Harvest Books
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1979
Genre: Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9780156551229

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Maigret and the Old Lady

Maigret and the Old Lady
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2017-02-28
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101992506

“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré Inspector Maigret takes a case from a lively old widow whose maid has been poisoned The inexplicable murder of the wealthy Valentine Besson’s maid leads the older woman to believe that she herself was the intended target. Inspector Maigret undertakes the investigation, meeting Mrs. Besson’s dysfunctional family and a cavalcade of suspects. As he delves into the case, Maigret must unravel a tangled web of family politics—and confront Valentine’s stepsons, who may be harboring dark secrets of their own.

When I Was Old

When I Was Old
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 375
Release: 2016-02-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0241213142

'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', are one of the most candid self-portraits of a writer ever put to paper. Here, as the celebrated author ruthlessly examines his tortuous writing methods, his past, his fame, his intimate relationships and his fears of ageing, the result is an unsparing, often painfully revealing insight into a man trying both to find and to escape himself. 'As revealed in these notebooks, Simenon's is a shrewd, lucid mind ... the balance tips toward the real, the immediate, the mysteries of human complexity above all ... Utterly unpretentious' The New York Times

Maigret's Failure

Maigret's Failure
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 163
Release: 2017-11-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 024130380X

'His artistry is supreme' John Banville Conflict rather than harmony probably reigned in eight out of ten of the still magnificent houses that surrounded the park. But he had rarely had the opportunity to breath such a strained atmosphere as the one between these walls. Everything seemed fake, grating, starting with the lodge of the concierge-cum-manservant, who was neither a concierge nor a manservant, despite his striped waistcoat, but a former poacher, a murderer turned guard dog. When a self-made man appeals to Maigret for protection at his lavish home, a years-old grudge from the past resurfaces and the inspector finds himself questioning his own motives. 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian

Maigret and the Man on the Bench

Maigret and the Man on the Bench
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1975
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Mondays are nobody's favorite day, but when Maigret's week begins with a corpse found stabbed to death in a Parisian alley, the Inspector immediately sees a flaw. Murders are rarely committed on Mondays. That clue, along with the victim's strange recent behavior, leads Maigret to the cause of this nasty crime-and reveals the tale of a deadly marriage.

Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse

Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2018-08-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 024130394X

'His artistry is supreme' John Banville 'Why all of a sudden did this shock him? He was annoyed with himself for being shocked. He felt as if he had been sucked into the bourgeois, almost edifying, atmosphere that surrounded those epeople, 'good people' so everyone kept telling him.' 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. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret and the Black Sheep. 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century ' Guardian

Maigret's Pipe

Maigret's Pipe
Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Harvest Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1994-10-14
Genre: Detective and mystery stories, English
ISBN: 9780156551465

Seventeen stories feature Simenon's dauntless detective as he works on some baffling cases both from his base--Paris police headquarters on the Quai des Ortevres--and throughout the provinces.