- Imprint: Penguin Classics
- ISBN: 9780241488546
- Length: 512 pages
- Dimensions: 198mm x 22mm x 129mm
- Weight: 351g
- Price: £10.99
The New Investigations of Inspector Maigret
byGeorges Simenon, Howard Curtis (Translator), Ros Schwartz (Translator)
John Banville, Financial TimesOne 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.
Adam Gopnik, New YorkerA superior stylist . . . photographic . . . Simenon's subject is how people who are pushed to the edge push themselves over it; the force of the sleuthing is that of psychoanalysis, not police interrogation.
Boyd Tonkin, The TimesGem-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
Margaret AtwoodStrangely comforting . . . so many lovely bistros from the Paris of mid-20th C. The corpses are incidental, it's the food that counts
Graeme Macrae Burnet, GuardianSimenon'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
Jane Corry, author of We All Have Our SecretsA gem of a read. It's like discovering a buried treasure trove of words, characters and dialogue which both entertain and make you think
About Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
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