Inspector Cadaver (Inspector Maigret) - Softcover

Simenon, Georges

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9780143112815: Inspector Cadaver (Inspector Maigret)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143112813 ISBN 13: 9780143112815

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2007

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While investigating a crime in provincial France, the inimitable Inspector Maigret encounters a rival detective from his own past. Original.

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Review:

"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

"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." - Andre Gide

"A supreme writer...unforgettable vividness." - The Independent

"Superb... The most addictive of writers... A unique teller of tales." - The Observer

"Compelling, remorseless, brilliant." - John Gray

"A truly wonderful writer... marvelously readable - lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the works 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 Banville

About the Author:

Georges Simenon was born in Li�ge, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in the English-speaking world as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories has made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

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