The discovery of a dismembered body leads Maigret into one of his strangest cases yet.
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.
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*
One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon
was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was
masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his
stories.
*Guardian*
One of Simenon's masterpieces ... 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.
*The New Yorker*
One of Simenon's masterpieces . . . photographic . . . a superior
stylist . . . . . . 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
*New Yorker*
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*
A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness
*Independent*
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*
The most addictive of writers . . . a unique teller of tales
*Observer*
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