A baffling case. A mysterious inheritance.
It starts when a man's arm is fished out of Paris's Canal Saint-Martin. Then the rest of the body is retrieved - apart from the head. Inspector Maigret is determined to unearth the truth behind this disturbing murder. When he meets the strangely taciturn owner of a shabby local bistro,Madame Calas,who says her husband is away,the pieces start to fall into place. But,as the dogged,laconic detective discovers,nothing in this tangled case is as it seems.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241639245Number of pages: 160Weight: 123 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 8 mm
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'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
Georges Simenon
Staggeringly prolific and stylistically revolutionary,French author Georges Simenon is the creator of Inspector Maigret and one of the most significant crime writers in literary history.
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