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Imprint: Penguin Classics
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Published: 09/01/2020
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ISBN: 9780241304419
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Length: 176 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm
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Weight: 134g
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RRP: £7.99
Maigret and Monsieur Charles
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Inspector Maigret #75.
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#75 in the Series: Inspector Maigret
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Georges Simenon
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Ros Schwartz (Translator)
THE LAST MAIGRET
'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves
He needed to get out of his office, soak up the atmosphere and discover different worlds with each new investigation. He needed the cafés and bars where he so often ended up waiting, at the counter, drinking a beer or a calvados depending on the circumstances.
He needed to do battle patiently in his office with a suspect who refused to talk and sometimes, after hours and hours, he'd obtain a dramatic confession.
In Simenon's final novel featuring Inspector Maigret, the famous detective reaches a pivotal moment in his career, contemplating his past and future as he delves into the Paris underworld one last time, to investigate the case of a missing lawyer.
'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century' Guardian
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Imprint: Penguin Classics
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Published: 09/01/2020
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ISBN: 9780241304419
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Length: 176 Pages
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Dimensions: 198mm x 10mm x 129mm
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Weight: 134g
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RRP: £7.99
Reviews
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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
Times
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Strangely comforting . . . so many lovely bistros from the Paris of mid-20th C. The corpses are incidental, it's the food that counts.
Margaret Atwood
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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.
Financial Times
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Simenon's supreme virtue as a novelist, to burrow beneath the surface of his characters' behaviour; to empathise . . . it is this unfailing humanity that makes the Maigret books truly worth reading
Guardian
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A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness
Independent
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The most addictive of writers . . . a unique teller of tales
Observer
