Maigret and the Apparition - Softcover

Simenon, Georges

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0156551276 ISBN 13: 9780156551274

Publisher: Harcourt, 1991

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"Maigret . . . ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals." -- People

Maigret arrives home exhausted after cracking an especially difficult case, only to be awakened within hours by the news of a nearly successful attempt on the life of a colleague. Plainclothes detective Lagnon, known to Maigret as "Inspector Hopeless," has become involved beyond his depth in an international art fraud and is suffering the consequences. Maigret's only clue to Lagnon's assailant is the single word "apparition" spoken by the victim as he emerges from the operating room. The apparition leads Maigret to the highest echelons of the Parisian art world--and the depths of greed and cruelty.

"Simenon is . . . in a class by himself." -- The New Yorker

Georges Simenon was born in Liege, Belgium, in 1903. As a young man he worked as a baker, journalist, and bookseller and published his first novel at seventeen. He 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. Simenon died in 1989.

Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon
|"Maigret . . . ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals." -- People

Maigret arrives home exhausted after cracking an especially difficult case, only to be awakened within hours by the news of a nearly successful attempt on the life of a colleague. Plainclothes detective Lagnon, known to Maigret as "Inspector Hopeless," has become involved beyond his depth in an international art fraud and is suffering the consequences. Maigret's only clue to Lagnon's assailant is the single word "apparition" spoken by the victim as he emerges from the operating room. The apparition leads Maigret to the highest echelons of the Parisian art world--and the depths of greed and cruelty.

"Simenon is . . . in a class by himself." -- The New Yorker

Georges Simenon was born in Liege, Belgium, in 1903. As a young man he worked as a baker, journalist, and bookseller and published his first novel at seventeen. He 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. Simenon died in 1989.

Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon

About the Author:

Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was born in Liège, 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harcourt
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0156551276
• ISBN 13: 9780156551274
• Binding: Paperback