My Friend Maigret (Inspector Maigret) - Softcover

Simenon, Georges

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9780143112846: My Friend Maigret (Inspector Maigret)

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ISBN 10: 0143112848 ISBN 13: 9780143112846

Publisher: Penguin Group USA, 2007

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Followed around by Inspector Pyke, who has come from Scotland Yard to study the famous French detective's methods, Maigret receives a telephone call saying that a small-time crook has been murdered, the night after the victim had fervently declared his friendship with Maigret. Original.

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"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" "Simenon created one of the great moral detectives . . . a master of the slow unfolding of the criminal mind." -John Mortimer "A writer who, more than any other crime novelist, combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal." -P. D. James "Simenon created some of the most enduring and compelling works of the twentieth century." -Iain Pears aThese Maigret books are as timeless as Paris itself.a a"The Washington Post" aMaigret ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals.a a"People" aSimenon created one of the great moral detectives . . . a master of the slow unfolding of the criminal mind.a aJohn Mortimer aA writer who, more than any other crime novelist, combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal.a aP. D. James aSimenon created some of the most enduring and compelling works of the twentieth century.a aIain Pears 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" Simenon created one of the great moral detectives . . . a master of the slow unfolding of the criminal mind. John Mortimer A writer who, more than any other crime novelist, combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal. P. D. James Simenon created some of the most enduring and compelling works of the twentieth century. Iain Pears

About the Author:

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.

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