Praise for Georges Simenon "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." --
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 . . . marvellously readable--lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the work he creates." --Muriel Spark
"A novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were a part of it." --Peter Ackroyd
"Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century." --John Banvill
Georges Simenon (1903–1989) began work as a reporter for a local newspaper at the age of sixteen, and at nineteen he moved to Paris to embark on a career as a novelist. He went on to write seventy-five Maigret novels and twenty-eight Maigret short stories.