'Compelling,remorseless,brilliant'John GrayA first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that had the same leitmotif of hanging.On the edge of a forest: a man hanging from every branch.A church steeple: beneath the weathercock,a human body dangling from each arm of the cross...Below another sketch were written four lines from Franois Villon's Ballade of the Hanged Men.On a trip to Brussels,Maigret unwittingly causes a man's suicide,but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself.This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets and The Crime of Inspector Maigret.'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century'Guardian
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141393452Number of pages: 144Weight: 112 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 8 mm
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Praise for Georges Simenon:"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 "These Maigret books are as timeless as Paris itself."-The Washington Post "Maigret ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals."-People "I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov."-William Faulkner "The greatest of all,the most genuine novelist we have had in literature."-André Gide "A supreme writer... Unforgettable vividness."-The Independent (London) "Superb... The most addictive of writers... A unique teller of tales."-The Observer (London) "Compelling,remorseless,brilliant."-John Gray "A truly wonderful writer... Marvelously readable-lucid,simple,absolutely in tune with the world he creates."-Muriel Spark "A novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were a part of it."lle -Peter Ackroyd "Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century."-John Banville"Gem-hard soul-probes...not justthe world's bestselling detective series,butan imperishable literary legend...he exposes secrets and crimes not by forensic wizardry,but by the melded powers of therapist,philosopher and confessor" ―Times (London)"Strangely comforting...so many lovely bistros from the Paris of mid-20th C. The corpses are incidental,it's the food that counts." ―Margaret Atwood"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"Gripping. . .richly rewarding...You'll quickly find yourself obsessing about his life as you tackle each mystery in turn."- Stig Abell ―The Sunday Times (London)
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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