Dougie Poynter has been obsessed with dinosaurs ever since visiting the Natural History Museum when he was about three. He is passionate about the natural world and a keen conservationist, working with charities such as WWF and Greenpeace to get harmful products banned and to clean up the planet. 
 
Dougie wrote songs together with Tom Fletcher for years in bands McFly and McBusted; they now write their bestselling Dinosaur that Pooped books in the same way that they write their song lyrics. The books have sold over a million copies!

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Georges Simenon

Xavier Manto, a mild-mannered toy salesman from a Paris department store, has come to confide his secret fears to Inspector Maigret: he suspects his wife is plotting to poison him. Then when Maigret receives a visit from Madame Manton on the same day, he is not sure who to trust. Soon he becomes caught up in a treacherous feud between husband and wife, where nothing is as clear cut as it seems. 
 
 
Translated by Shaun Whiteside

Maigret's Doubts

Inspector Maigret

Inspector Maigret is savouring a beautiful spring morning in Paris when he has his wallet stolen by a pickpocket – only to find it returned the next day, on the condition he visit the thief’s apartment. What Maigret discovers there sees him investigating an unusual murder, and embroiled in the world of aspiring film-makers – one where ever-changing loyalties can have tragic consequences. 
 
 
Translated by Siân Reynolds

Maigret's Pickpocket

Inspector Maigret and his wife take a much-needed rest cure in the spa town of Vichy, where they quickly become used to the leisurely pace of life. But when a woman who they regularly pass by on their daily strolls is murdered, Maigret can't help but offer his assistance to the local investigation – no matter where it leads. 
 
 
Translated by Ros Schwartz

Maigret in Vichy

For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office, where he is shocked to discover himself accused of a crime. With his career and reputation on the line, Maigret must fight to prove his innocence. Has he, for once, come up against a malicious evil he cannot defeat? 
 
 
Translated by Howard Curtis

Maigret Defends Himself

Inspector Maigret is known for his infallible instinct, for getting at the truth no matter how complex the case, but when someone starts killing women on the streets of Montmartre, he finds himself confounded. In the sweltering Paris summer heat, with the city in a state of siege, Maigret hatches a plan to lure the murderer out. 
 
 
Translated by Siân Reynolds

Maigret Sets a Trap

It seems like a hoax when Inspector Maigret receives a series of strange phone calls from a terrified man claiming he is being followed – and that his life is at risk. But that night, the man is found dead in the Place de la Concorde. To catch the killer, Maigret must delve into his dead man’s life – and into the murky Parisian underworld. 
 
Translated by David Coward

Maigret's Dead Man

Inspector Maigret’s wife has fallen ill during their seaside holiday at Les Sables-d’Olonne. When he visits her in the hospital, he receives a strange note instructing him to see a patient in another ward. Soon he finds himself unexpectedly drawn into a quest to find justice for a young girl – and confronting an evil that is hidden in plain sight. 
 
Translated by Ros Schwartz

Maigret's Holiday

Inspector Maigret is supposed to be working to stop the gangs of robbers terrorising Paris, but then a body is found, dumped in the Bois de Boulogne. It turns out to be a quiet, likeable burglar he has known for years, and for whom he cannot help feeling affection. Defying orders from his superiors, he determines to discover who killed his old acquaintance – even if it leads him into terrible danger. 
 
 
Translated by Howard Curtis

Maigret and the Lazy Burglar

Inspector Maigret is called to the home of the Comte de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected official who has been found shot dead in the study of his elegant Parisian home. The violent death of this distinguished former ambassador – an old man without political secrets or enemies – confounds the detective. Then a mysterious bundle of old letters leads him closer towards a tragic truth. 
 
Translated by Shaun Whiteside

Maigret and the Old People

Inspector Maigret finds himself back on Paris’s Rue des Acacias just ten days after cracking another case there. This time it is the murder of a gangster he has known for over twenty years – and one he always suspected was behind a string of jewellery robberies in the city. Can he prove his theory? Maigret must bide his time, explore every angle and interview every neighbour until he can get to the truth. 
 
Translated by David Watson

Maigret's Patience

Inspector Maigret is standing in the pouring rain by a canal near the town of Épernay. A well-dressed woman, Mary Lampson, has been found strangled in a stable nearby. Why did her glamorous, hedonistic life come to such a brutal end here? Surely her taciturn husband Sir Walter knows – or maybe the answers lie with the crew of the barge La Providence. 
 
 
Translated by David Coward

The Carter of 'La Providence'

The last time Maigret went home to the village of his birth was for his father’s funeral. Now an anonymous note predicting a crime during All Souls’ Day mass draws him back there. Before long the prediction has become a brutal reality – and the Inspector discovers he is no longer welcome, as troubling memories resurface, and hidden vices are revealed. 
 
 
Translated by Shaun Whiteside

The Saint-Fiacre Affair

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