Maigret Is Afraid

Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1524705373
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 177

Book Description
“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré Maigret stumbles upon a series of murders in Fontenay-le-Comte while visiting an old school friend On his way home from a conference, Maigret stops to visit an old school friend in Fontenay-le-Comte. A man in the same train car introduces himself and asks if Maigret has come to help solve the murder case. In fact, the man’s brother-in-law had been murdered four days earlier, followed by the murder of a local widow in the same way, a blow to the head with a pipe. While Maigret is in town, a third murder is reported. Maigret soon discovers that there are two warring factions in the town, a clear class separation, and an air of suspicion that only he can put to rest.

Maigret Afraid

Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170

Book Description

Maigret Afraid. Translated ... by Margaret Duff

Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156

Book Description

Maigret a Peur. Maigret Afraid. Translated ... by Margaret Duff

Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description

Maigret Sets a Trap

Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Harvest Books
ISBN: 9780156551267
Category : Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Robert Philip Hanssen was one of the FBI's most trusted agents, a 25 year veteran, devout Catholic and devoted suburban family man. But as he rose up the ranks, he was leading another life as a devilishly clever spy for the Russian government, selling America's most closely guarded national security secrets. Now, Pulitzer Prize--winning journalist Vise untangles Hanssen's web of deceit to tell the story of how he avoided detection for decades while becoming the most dangerous double agent in FBI history--and how the FBI eventually brought him down.

The Man who Wasn't Maigret

Author: Patrick Marnham
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780140139273
Category : Novelists, Belgian
Languages : en
Pages : 346

Book Description
'Penetrating, fully researched and very well written. It describes this extraordinarily productive literary genius at all stages of his life and adds to an understanding not only of Simenon's art, but the art of the novel itself.' - Muriel Spark in Scotland on Sunday

Maigret's Boyhood Friend

Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Mariner Books
ISBN: 9780156551311
Category : Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
When Maigret receives a visit from an old schoolmate whose mistress has been shot to death, he feels compelled to look into the case. Yet his friend is one of the suspects-along with the dead woman's four other lovers, each unknown to the others. The basis for a public television Mystery! presentation. Translated by Eileen Ellenbogen. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book

Maigret Right and Wrong

Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Detective and mystery stories, French
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description

Dirty Snow

Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1590175581
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get by; Frank takes it easy in his mother’s whorehouse, which caters to members of the occupying forces. But Frank is restless. He is a pimp, a thug, a petty thief, and, as Dirty Snow opens, he has just killed his first man. Through the unrelenting darkness and cold of an endless winter, Frank will pursue abjection until at last there is nowhere to go. Hans Koning has described Dirty Snow as “one of the very few novels to come out of German-occupied France that gets it exactly right.” In a study of the criminal mind that is comparable to Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me, Simenon maps a no man’s land of the spirit in which human nature is driven to destruction—and redemption, perhaps, as well—by forces beyond its control.

Maigret Takes a Room

Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101992565
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174

Book Description
“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré When a man is killed outside a Parisian boarding house, Inspector Maigret moves in to get to the bottom of it While keeping watch outside Mademoiselle Clément’s boarding house to await a suspect in a local bar robbery, a man named Janvier is shot in the chest. When Maigret, whose wife is away caring for her sister in Alsace, hears of the crime, he moves into the boarding house to solve the case. But the web quickly grows ever-more tangled, and Maigret must navigate generations-long secrets and a torrid affair to find his answers before it’s too late.