Maigret in Court - Softcover

Simenon, Georges

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0141187298 ISBN 13: 9780141187297

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2003

Synopsis

In a great courtroom drama, Maigret has to explain why he does not belive that Gaston Meurant was capable of slitting his aunt's throat for money and smothering a small child. But in saving him from the gallows, Maigret must expose some dark secretsabout Meurant's life. A painful story of an oppressive domestic tragedy and the compassionate insight of a remarkable detective.

'A truly wonderful writer ... marvellously readable - lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with that world he creates ofrun-down hotels, cold, dark barges, quayside canal-taverns, lurking prostitutes, pot-bellied burghers, taciturn youths, slippery barmen' - Muriel Spark, Sunday Times

About this title

Synopsis:

In a great courtroom drama, Maigret has to explain why he does not believe that Gaston Meurant was capable of slitting his aunt's throat for money and smothering a small child. But in saving him from the gallows, Maigret must expose some dark secrets about Meurant's life.

About the Author:

Georges Simenon was born at Liège in Belgium in 1903. He published over 160 books and his work has been admired by almost all the leading French and English critics. His books have been translated into more than 20 languages and more than 40 have been filmed.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0141187298
• ISBN 13: 9780141187297
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 144