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Betty by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
A searing exploration of a woman's hidden destructive impulses from one of the great writers of the twentieth century'There was no longer that ambivalent inconsistency between her words and thoughts, no more fever, no more artificial heat, no more vagueness. Instead was the truth in all its rawness, in ...Show more
Death Threats: And Other Stories by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
A new selection of stories featuring the celebrated literary detective, Inspector MaigretAn ageing boxer caught in a love triangle. A wealthy Parisian family on the brink of collapse. A mysterious murder in a hotel in Cannes.These tales of human frailty and deceit - three of which are being published in ...Show more
Dirty Snow by Simenon Georges
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery
Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get by; Frank takes it easy in his mother's whorehouse, which caters to members of the occupying forces. But Frank is restless. He is a pimp, a thug, a petty thief, and, as Dirty Snow opens, he has just kille ...Show more
Inspector Cadaver by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Inspector Maigret
Maigret's old colleague becomes an unexpected rival in book twenty-four of the new Penguin Maigret series.In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare after they had passed him, he was the intruder, the undesirable. No, wo ...Show more
Letter to My Mother (Mini Modern Classics) by Georges Simenon
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Category: Fiction | Series: Mini Modern Classics | Reading Level: near fine
As you are well aware, we never loved each other in your lifetime. Both of us pretended.' Simenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in this stark, confessional piece.
Liberty Bar (Maigret #17) by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Inspector Maigret
This is a new translation of Georges Simenon's devastating novel set on the French Riviera, book seventeen in the new Penguin Maigret series. It had a smell of holidays. The previous evening, in Cannes harbour, with the setting sun, had also had the smell of holidays, especially the Ardena, whose owner ...Show more
Madame Maigret's Friend by Georges Simenon; Howard Curtis (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The GuardianInspector Maigret steps in when an anonymous note to the police reports that a body has b ...Show more
Maigret Defends Himself - Inspector Maigret #63 by Georges Simenon; Howard Curtis (Translator)
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office where he learns that he has been accused of assaulting a young woman. With his career and reputation on the line, Maigret must fight to prove his innocence. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Mai ...Show more
Maigret Enjoys Himself : Inspector Maigret #50 by Georges Simenon; David Watson (Translator)
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The Guardian Convinced that he needs a vacation, Maigret resolves to take two weeks off--but when a ...Show more
Maigret Gets Angry by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Thriller Mystery | Series: Inspector Maigret
Maigret is cajoled out of retirement by a case involving an old classmate in book twenty-six of the new Penguin Maigret series. All that was still unclear, for sure. Ernest Malik had been right when he had looked at Maigret with a smile that was a mixture of sarcasm and contempt. This wasn't a case for ...Show more
Maigret Goes to School: Inspector Maigret #44 by Georges Simenon; Linda Coverdale (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The GuardianInspector Maigret becomes entangled in the dramas of a small town on his quest to solve t ...Show more