My Friend Maigret

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101201909

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My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon Pdf

Three vintage Maigret novels by legendary mystery author Georges Simenon One of the world 's most successful crime writers, Georges Simenon has thrilled mystery lovers since 1931 with his matchless creation Inspector Maigret. In My Friend Maigret, Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a small- time crook on a Mediterranean island. Told in Simenon's spare, unsentimental prose, Inspector Cadaver is a haunting exploration of provincial hypocrisy and snobbery, in which Maigret encounters a rival sleuth from his past. In Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard, Simenon's tenacious detective pieces together the life of a man who for three years lived a secret life-until he is found stabbed to death in an alleyway.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101992487

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My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon Pdf

“[My Friend Maigret] is a great vehicle for passing the dead minutes…by pondering, with Maigret, the challenges of order versus chaos, how to serve justice, if it needs serving—and an island filled with ‘nothing but phenomena.’” —The New York Times Book Review Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a small-time crook on a Mediterranean island While Inspector Pyke of Scotland Yard is staying with Maigret to observe his methods, Maigret receives word of a murder in the Midi on the island of Porquerolles. The victim is Marcellin, a man who claims to have been Maigret’s friend but was actually a criminal whose girlfriend, a sex worker, Maigret helped out of a scrape years ago. Travelling to the island, Maigret and Pyke must solve a mystery that takes them deep into the shadowy world of art forgery and the heart of an isolated community with eccentric inhabitants—and no shortage of secrets. My Friend Maigret is a page-turning mystery set in the sun-drenched south of France about what can happen when past acquaintances resurface. “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

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781440677984

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Friend of Madame Maigret by Georges Simenon Pdf

In The Friend of Madame Maigret, Simenon?s economic prose brilliantly portrays the Marais quarter of Paris and those who haunt its narrow streets as Inspector Maigret attempts to prove that a murder has actually been committed without a corpse anywhere to be found. As the investigation becomes increasingly complex, seemingly unconnected characters are drawn into the case, and Maigret begins to wonder if his wife?s earlier strange encounter with a woman and her baby may be the missing link.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Mariner Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-16
Category : Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0156028514

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Maigret's Boyhood Friend by Georges Simenon Pdf

When Maigret receives a visit from an old schoolmate whose mistress has been shot to death, he feels compelled to look into the case. Yet his friend is one of the suspects--along with the dead woman’s four other lovers, each unknown to the others. The basis for a public television Mystery! presentation. Translated by Eileen Ellenbogen. Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : French fiction
ISBN : UCSC:32106011414130

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Maigret in Vichy by Georges Simenon Pdf

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525504214

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Maigret's Childhood Friend by Georges Simenon Pdf

When a familiar face from Maigret's past brings him word of a mysterious killing, the Inspector jumps on the case When a long lost friend pays a visit to Maigret's office, he is shocked to learn that the man's roommate has been murdered. With the help of his old friend, Maigret delves into the life of the victim and finds a complex web of relationships that leads him to the culprit. Absorbing and impossible to predict, Maigret's Childhood Friend is a riveting mystery that reveals a new shade to the iconic detective.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1424382388

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My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon Pdf

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241240175

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Maigret's Memoirs by Georges Simenon Pdf

“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 A fictional autobiography of Maigret, Georges Simenon’s brilliant detective In this make-believe memoir, Maigret recounts a meeting with the author himself. The account starts with the arrival of Georges Sim, as he is called here, at the Paris Police Judiciaire to soak up atmosphere for his crime novels by dogging the footsteps of Inspector Maigret. The detective is irritated by the audacious young writer who names a character after him and argues that he oversimplifies, in his fiction, the intricate duties of the police investigating a case. Here, Maigret “sets the record straight,” telling readers how he’s different from the invention, and about his courtship and marriage to his beloved Louise. Ingeniously amusing and tender, Maigret’s Memoirs is a look inside the mind of the brilliant Maigret like never before.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Harvest Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 0156551268

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Maigret Sets a Trap by Georges Simenon Pdf

Robert Philip Hanssen was one of the FBI's most trusted agents, a 25 year veteran, devout Catholic and devoted suburban family man. But as he rose up the ranks, he was leading another life as a devilishly clever spy for the Russian government, selling America's most closely guarded national security secrets. Now, Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist Vise untangles Hanssen's web of deceit to tell the story of how he avoided detection for decades while becoming the most dangerous double agent in FBI history--and how the FBI eventually brought him down.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101992517

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Madame Maigret's Friend by Georges Simenon Pdf

“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 Inspector Maigret steps in when an anonymous note to the police reports that a body has been burned in a bookbinder’s furnace An anonymous note to the police reports that a body has been burned in the furnace of a bookbinder on the Rue de Turenne. Preliminary investigations turn up suspicious details—and two human teeth of a man who’d been alive not long before. Meanwhile, Madame Maigret has had a strange experience while waiting for her dentist appointment. A woman she had often met on the bench while waiting suddenly leaves her young child in Madame Maigret’s care and disappears for over an hour, returning to take the child and vanishing without explanation. When Maigret’s investigation is blown wide open, it seems the two incidents might be related in ways no one could have predicted.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141977935

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The Two-Penny Bar by Georges Simenon Pdf

Previously published as The Bar on the Seine 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 heightened, when the people walking down the street, the trams and cars all seem to exist in a fairy tale.' A story told by a condemned man leads Maigret to a bar by the Seine and into the sleazy underside of respectable Parisian life. In the oppressive heat of summer, a forgotten crime comes to light. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel is a revised translation, previously published as The Bar on the Seine. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray '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 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525504078

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Maigret's Doubts by Georges Simenon Pdf

“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 Inspector Maigret finds himself caught in the middle of a husband and wife duo’s case of “he said/she said”—with murderous consequences An unusually quiet day for Inspector Maigret at the Quai des Orfèvres is disturbed by a visit from mild-mannered toy salesman Xavier Manton. Maigret is taken aback by Manton’s revelation that he suspects his wife of plotting to poison him. And when he receives a visit from Madame Manton expressing her own grave concerns later that day, he finds himself deeply conflicted, unsure of whom to trust. Maigret heeds the advice of his seniors and begins investigating the couple—and with every turn, new complications arise. When the case comes to a boil and a body is discovered, everyone, including Maigret, is shocked. Maigret’s Doubts is an engrossing mystery of marriage and deceit that forces the reader to question whether our brilliant inspector may be fallible after all.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698157491

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The Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon Pdf

“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré A gripping mystery from Georges Simenon in which Inspector Maigret must go up against small town suspicion—and revenge In a small, seaside town in the northwest of France, the local wine dealer is wounded by a gunshot while retuning home drunk from a hotel bar. Maigret, who is heading up a mobile squad of the Paris police force, is called in by the mayor to solve the crime. But upon settling down in the hotel, Maigret quickly discovers a curious cast of characters awaits him there—and they all have something to hide. In the course of this strange case, a customs official is shot, a retired journalist is lost and found, and a vagrant is attested, but through it all Maigret has his sights set firmly in the direction of the truth, even as a strange yellow dog haunts the neighborhood. Fast-paced and wholly unpredictable, The Yellow Dog is a sharp mystery set against the cutthroat backdrop of small town politics.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin Classics
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Soviet Union
ISBN : 0241534720

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The People Opposite by Georges Simenon Pdf

On the shore of the Black Sea, on the edge of the Soviet Union, a little city has a new Turkish consul. Adil Bey - alone in an alien land - has taken the job after the mysterious death of his predecessor. Receiving only suspicion and hostility, he soon becomes reliant on his secretary, Sonia, for any taste of intimacy. They begin a quiet love affair, and from his window at the consulate, he watches her and her family go about their lives in the room across the way. But this is Stalin's world before the war, and nothing is as it seems. . . Georges Simenon's most starkly political work, The People Opposite is a tour de force of slow-burn tension and existentialist meditation.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2005-12-01
Category : Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character)
ISBN : 1579125794

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Maigret and the Wine Merchant by Georges Simenon Pdf