Georges Simenon

Broschiertes Buch

Maigret at the Coroner's

Inspector Maigret

Übersetzung: Coverdale, Linda

Beschreibung

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray

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 happened to believe that men and their passions are the same everywhere.

Maigret is touring the United States to observe American policing methods, when a visit to a coroner's inquest in Arizona draws him into the tragic story of a young woman and five airmen in the desert.

'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

'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent

Autor

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.

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Produktdetails

• Inspector Maigret
• Verlag: Penguin Books UK / Penguin Classics
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 842365
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Juni 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 126mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 151g
• ISBN-13: 9780241206812
• ISBN-10: 0241206812
• Artikelnr.: 43852373

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One of the greatest writers of the 20th century . . . no other writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set of characters - above all, an atmosphere John Banville Financial Times