A gripping new translation of the iconic short story collection featuring Simenons celebrated literary detectiveThe truth was, Maigret knew nothing! Maigret felt. Maigret was sure he was right, would have bet his life on it. But in vain hed turned the problem over a hundred times in his head, in vain hed had every taxi driver in Paris questionedA sumptuous mansion hiding terrible crimes, a distressed young womans cry for help, a gunshot on a rainy Dieppe street, a runaway couple with a secret these seventeen Inspector Maigret short stories, written and published in journals during the Second World War, show Simenons celebrated detective uncovering the darkness beneath ordinary lives.These stories have been published in a previous translation as Maigrets PipeNot just the worlds 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 Boyd Tonkin, The Times

Binding: Paperback;320 pages; Publisher: TBS-Penguin Random House Wholesale; Classification: FC; Weight: 470 g; Dimensions: 128 x 200 x 26

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