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Cecile is Dead by Georges Simenon
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret
A new translation of this moving novel about the destructive power of greed, this is book twenty in the new Penguin Maigret series. Poor Cecile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult to look more like an old maid, to move less ...Show more
Felicie (#25 aka Maigret and the Toy Village) by Georges Simenon; David Coward (Translator)
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The Guardian A story of love and obsession featuring a most memorable femme fatale, starring the int ...Show more
Inspector Cadaver by Georges Simenon
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret
Maigret's old colleague becomes an unexpected rival in book twenty-four of the new Penguin Maigret series.In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare after they had passed him, he was the intruder, the undesirable. No, wo ...Show more
Maigret Gets Angry by Georges Simenon
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret
Maigret is cajoled out of retirement by a case involving an old classmate in book twenty-six of the new Penguin Maigret series. All that was still unclear, for sure. Ernest Malik had been right when he had looked at Maigret with a smile that was a mixture of sarcasm and contempt. This wasn't a case for ...Show more
Maigret: Inspector Maigret #19 by Georges Simenon
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret
This is a new translation of this gripping novel which sees the inspector brought out of his peaceful retirement, book nineteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. Maigret shrugged his shoulders, buried his hands in his pockets and went off without answering. He had just spent one of the most wretched da ...Show more
Maigret Sets a Trap by Georges Simenon; Sian Reynolds (Translator)
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The GuardianWith a serial killer on the loose in Paris, Maigret must outsmart the culprit before he c ...Show more
Maigret and the Man on the Bench by Georges Simenon; David Watson (Translator)
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The Guardian Inspector Maigret must untangle the web of lies left behind by a murdered man whose fami ...Show more
Maigret at the Coroner's #32 by Georges Simenon; Linda Coverdale (Translator)
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The Guardian In Arizona on a study tour of America, Inspector Maigret observes a day in the life of ...Show more
Maigret's Failure : Inspector Maigret #49 by Georges Simenon; William Hobson (Translator)
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The Guardian When a childhood bully reappears in Maigret's life, he struggles to put aside his ow ...Show more
Pietr the Latvian by Georges Simenon; David Bellos (Translator)
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The GuardianIn Simenon's iconic first novel featuring Inspector Maigret, the laconic detective is tak ...Show more
The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien: Inspector Maigret #3 by Georges Simenon
$15.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret | Reading Level: near fine
Georges Simenon's haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, translated by Linda Coverdale as part of the new Penguin Maigret series. A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other ...Show more
The Late Monsieur Gallet by Georges Simenon
$21.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
George Simenon's devastating tale of misfortune, betrayal and the weakness of family ties, translated by Anthea Bell as part of the new Penguin Maigret series. Instead of the detail filling itself in and becoming clearer, it seemed to escape him. The face of the man in the ill-fitting coat just misted u ...Show more