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A Maigret Christmas: And Other Stories by Georges Simenon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret
It is Christmas in Paris, but beneath the sparkling lights and glittering decorations lie sinister deeds and dark secrets. In the short story that lends its title to the volume, the Inspector receives two unexpected visitors on Christmas Day, who lead him on the trail of a mysterious intruder dressed in ...Show more
Death Threats: And Other Stories by Georges Simenon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction
A new selection of stories featuring the celebrated literary detective, Inspector MaigretAn ageing boxer caught in a love triangle. A wealthy Parisian family on the brink of collapse. A mysterious murder in a hotel in Cannes.These tales of human frailty and deceit - three of which are being published in ...Show more
The Cellars of the Majestic (Inspector Maigret #21) by Georges Simenon
$16.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret
The dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris is brought to life in this new translation, book twenty-one in the new Penguin Maigret series. 'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess ...In a suite that costs more than a thousand ...Show more
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien (Inspector Maigret #3) by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret
Georges Simenon's haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, translated by Linda Coverdale as part of the new Penguin Maigret series. A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other ...Show more
The Little Man from Archangel by Georges Simenon
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Category: Fiction
'A unique teller of tales ... What interested Simenon was the average man losing control of his own fate' Observer'She was beautiful, full of vitality, and he was sixteen years older, a dusty, lonely bookseller whose only passion in life was collecting stamps.'Jonas is used to his young wife disappearin ...Show more
The Snow Was Dirty by Georges Simenon
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Category: Fiction | 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 Yellow Dog (Inspector Maigret #5) by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Fiction | 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: Classics
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
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