A series of letters set Maigret up for a peculiar case.
Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, 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.
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*
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
*The Times*
Terrific...the 75 Inspector Maigret books are almost uniformly
wonderful. They are not crime or even detective fiction as
ordinarily understood...they are about human foibles, moral
failings and compromises, set in an evocatively atmospheric
Paris
*Sunday Times*
A great writer of detail, of atmosphere
*Financial Times*
A genius … Simenon broke all the rules
*Daily Telegraph*
The novels brim with atmosphere, insight and intelligence . . .
quite unlike anything else written before or since
*The Times*
Exceptional… Simenon’s writing still seems fresh…one of the great
pleasures is the summoning of France’s many landscapes and
accompanying social milieux . . . There is also, and it’s a chief
glory of the books, a whole range of different Parises, from the
shiny rich to the hypocritical bourgeois middle to the struggling,
furious world of the poor, desperate and professionally
criminal
*Times Literary Supplement*
I never read contemporary fiction–with one exception: the works of
Simenon
*T.S. Eliot*
One of the most important writers of our century
*Gabriel García Márquez*
An astute observer of human nature, writing in a spare and vivid
style
*Amor Towles*
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