Maigret Goes to School: Inspector Maigret: 44 - Softcover

Simenon, Georges

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241297575 ISBN 13: 9780241297575

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 2017

Synopsis

'His artistry is supreme' John Banville

'What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he'd had the same feeling of helplessness or, rather, futility. He would find himself abruptly plunged into the lives of people he had never met before, and his job was to discover their most intimate secrets. This time, as it happened, it wasn't even his job. He was the one who had chosen to come, because a teacher had waited for him for hours in the Purgatory at the Police Judiciaire.'

When a school teacher from a small coastal town near La Rochelle asks Maigret to help prove he is innocent of murder, the Inspector returns with him to his insular community and finds the residents closing ranks to conceal the truth.

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray

About this title

About the Author

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241297575
• ISBN 13: 9780241297575
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192