Maigret Sets a Trap (Maigret Mystery Series) - Softcover

Simenon, Georges

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9780156028486: Maigret Sets a Trap (Maigret Mystery Series)

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ISBN 10: 0156028484 ISBN 13: 9780156028486

Publisher: Harvest Books, 2003

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It is a hot and steamy summer, and Maigret is hatching a plan to capture a serial murderer by playing on the killer's perverse vanity. He finally succeeds when an important clue leads him to a trio of suspects. But the three are entangled in a web of guilt and possessiveness so tight that the unraveling nearly exhausts the Inspector--until, at last, he discovers the tortured motives behind the murders.

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From the Back Cover:

"Marvellously evoke[s] the sounds, the smells,
the colour and the raucous life of European bars,
ports and cities."-P. D . JAMES
IT I S A H OT and steamy summer, and Maigret is hatching a plan to capture
a serial murderer by playing on the killer's perverse vanity. He finally
succeeds when an important clue leads him to a trio of suspects. But the
three are entangled in a web of guilt and possessiveness so tight that the
unraveling nearly exhausts the Inspector-until, at last, he discovers the tortured
motives behind the murders.

"Captivating."-T H E N E W YO R K T I M E S B O O K RE V I E W

G E O R G E S S I M E N O N (1903-1989) was born in Li�ge, Belgium. He published his
first novel at seventeen and went on to write more than two hundred novels, becoming
one of the world's most prolific and bestselling authors. His books have sold more
than 500 million copies and have been translated into fifty languages.
|"Marvellously evoke[s] the sounds, the smells,
the colour and the raucous life of European bars,
ports and cities."-P. D . JAMES
IT I S A H OT and steamy summer, and Maigret is hatching a plan to capture
a serial murderer by playing on the killer's perverse vanity. He finally
succeeds when an important clue leads him to a trio of suspects. But the
three are entangled in a web of guilt and possessiveness so tight that the
unraveling nearly exhausts the Inspector-until, at last, he discovers the tortured
motives behind the murders.

"Captivating."-T H E N E W YO R K T I M E S B O O K RE V I E W

G E O R G E S S I M E N O N (1903-1989) was born in Li�ge, Belgium. He published his
first novel at seventeen and went on to write more than two hundred novels, becoming
one of the world's most prolific and bestselling authors. His books have sold more
than 500 million copies and have been translated into fifty languages.

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