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Inspektor Lognon, auch bekannt als Inspektor Griesgram, ist wahrlich vom Pech verfolgt. Mit einer ständig kranken Frau verheiratet und trotz harter Arbeit nach wie vor Bezirkspolizist im 18. Arrondissement, wurde er nun... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an irony which was neither less cheerful nor less childish, but which... See More
Classics
The fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, in Linda Asher's timeless translation. There was an exaggerated humility about her. Her cowed eyes, her... See More
Classics
Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution and betrayal. 'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone, nothing but soft, flaccid matter, so much so that his movements were hard to make out. Very red lips... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 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... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
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... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves Slowly the Czech was becoming animated, but in a muted way, so typical of the man. Maigret now noticed his hands, which were long, surprisingly white and... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'The father of contemporary European detective fiction' Ann Cleeves 'Maigret would have found it difficult to formulate an opinion of him. Intelligent, yes, certainly, and highly so, as far as one could tell from what lay... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'His artistry is supreme' John Banville For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Chief Commissioner's office where he learns that he has been accused of assaulting a young woman... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'His artistry is supreme' John Banville The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was incapable of figuring out anything... well, Maigret... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler, Felix Nahour, who has been found shot dead by his chambermaid. Maigret is shocked to recognise a photo of the man's wife... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'When he had set them to work, Maigret had had a merry, almost fierce glint in his eye. He had set them loose on the house like a pack of hounds on the trail of a scent... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
A new translation of Georges Simenon's gripping tale of lost identity. Book sixteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret intervenes and speaks to the man daily but when the... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'The most addictive of writers' Observer 'High up in Montmartre, there was a festive atmosphere, people were crowding round the little tables where rosé wine was being served... Yet a hundred metres further on, the little... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'His artistry is supreme' John Banville 'Why all of a sudden did this shock him? He was annoyed with himself for being shocked. He felt as if he had been sucked into the bourgeois, almost edifying, atmosphere that... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'His artistry is supreme' John Banville 'You're a good soul, inspector, and when you're up against the second-rate criminals you get here in Paris, you're a crack policeman. But this business isn't for you. These guys play... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being badly beaten, Maigret must delve into the man's personal circumstances to figure out just who wanted to kill him. This... See More
Literary Fiction
Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage series A stolen weapon. A troubled young man. A race against time... Inspector Maigret receives a call from his wife to say he has a visitor at their apartment. But when he gets... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'Read him at your peril, avoid him at your loss' Sunday Times Captain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards - and they've never let him forget it. When his... See More
Literary Fiction
'A unique teller of tales... What interested Simenon was the average man losing control of his own fate' Observer 'She was beautiful, full of vitality, and he was sixteen years older, a dusty, lonely bookseller whose only... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'His artistry is supreme' John Banville 'He was wearing a dark suit, a beige raincoat and on his feet, which were twisted at an odd angle, he wore yellow-brown shoes, which seemed out of keeping with a day as colourless as... See More
Classics
A new translation of Simenon's tense novel, book fifteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep - was it really sleep? - his sighs, and his sobbing. Then the two dangling... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'His artistry is supreme' John Banville It was as if suddenly, long ago, life had stopped here, not the life of the man lying on the bed but the life of the house, the life of its world, and even the factory chimney that... See More
Classics
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into his pocket, his left breast pocket? It was an ordinary sheet of glazed squared paper, probably torn out of an... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'Vintage Simenon, a dark masterpiece... eerily prophetic' John Banville, Guardian 'It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough... or else that you are too foreign' Just as the Krull house... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'His artistry is supreme' John Banville Conflict rather than harmony probably reigned in eight out of ten of the still magnificent houses that surrounded the park. But he had rarely had the opportunity to breath such a... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess... In a suite that costs more than a thousand francs a... See More
Classics
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'He had realized that it was her eyes as much as her vivacity that made her look so young. They were of a blue that was paler than the September sky over the sea and still had... See More
Crime, Thriller & Mystery
'Irresistible... so tightly wound that there's no natural place to put it down' Independent 'Maigret had questioned thousands, tens of thousands of people in the course of his career, some occupying important positions... See More