Maigret and the Headless Corpse : Inspector Maigret

Georges Simenon

ISBN 10: 0241297265 / ISBN 13: 9780241297261

Published by Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2017, 2017

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Neuware - 'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'There was no lack of picturesque individuals in a neighbourhood like Quai de Valmy. But he had seldom encountered the kind of inertia he had seen in that woman. It was hard to explain. When most people look at you, there is some sort of exchange, however small. A contact is established, even if that contact is a kind of defiance.With her, on the contrary, there was nothing.'The discovery of a dismembered body in the Canal Saint Martin leads Maigret into a tangled, baffling case involving a taciturn bistro-owner and a mysterious inheritance.'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' Guardian'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Maigret and the Headless Corpse : Inspector Maigret
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Sep 2017
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241297265
• ISBN 13: 9780241297261
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 197W x 128H x 15D millimeters 197 millimeters width by 128 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 150 grams

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Synopsis

"One of Simenon's masterpieces." —Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré

A man’s dismembered body is found in a canal, and only Maigret can uncover the killer

When a man’s headless body is discovered in Paris’s Saint-Martin Canal, Maigret is quick to answer the call. It is in this very neighborhood that he meets a strangely taciturn woman who runs a cafe. Her husband is away on a trip—or so she says. As is often the case, Maigret soon learns that there is more to the story than meets the eye.

As shocking as it is incisive, Maigret and the Headless Corpse is a compelling mystery from Georges Simenon.

About the Author

Georges Simenon (1903–1989) was born in Liège, Belgium. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of more than four hundred novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe.

Howard Curtis is a prizewinning translator of French, Italian, and Spanish literature. He lives in London.