Maigret's Memoirs (Inspector Maigret Mysteries) - Softcover

Simenon, Georges; Stewart, Jean

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9780380704125: Maigret's Memoirs (Inspector Maigret Mysteries)

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ISBN 10: 0380704129 ISBN 13: 9780380704125

Publisher: Avon Books, 1989

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Inspector Maigret shows the ways of police work to a young writer and reveals his rural upbringing, his first assignment as a bicycle messenger, and how he wooed and won Madame Maigret

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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 (London)

"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 (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 Banville

About the Author:

Georges Simenon was born in Li�ge, Belgium, in 1903. He is best know in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have 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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