The Carter of 'La Providence': Inspector Maigret

Simenon, Georges

ISBN 10: 0141393467 / ISBN 13: 9780141393469

Published by Penguin Classics, 2014

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Carter of 'La Providence': Inspector Maigret
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141393467
• ISBN 13: 9780141393469
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 120 grams

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Synopsis

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray

What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten in the evening.
But how? And why? And no one had heard a thing! She had not screamed. The two carters had not woken up.

Inspector Maigret is standing in the pouring rain by a canal. A well-dressed woman, Mary Lampson, has been found strangled in a stable nearby. Why did her glamorous, hedonistic life come to such a brutal end here? Surely her taciturn husband Sir Walter knows - or maybe the answers lie with the crew of the barge La Providence.

This novel has been published in previous translations as Lock 14 and Maigret Meets a Milord.

'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century' Guardian

About the Author

Georges Simenon (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.

David Coward (Translator)
David Coward is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Leeds and has translated many books from French for Penguin Classics.