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Inspector Cadaver: Inspector Maigret #24

Inspector Cadaver: Inspector Maigret #24

by Georges Simenon (Author), Georges Simenon (Author), William Hobson (Translator)

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Synopsis

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, worse, he was fundamentally untrustworthy, some stranger who had just turned up from who knew where to do who knew what. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret's Rival. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray '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

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Format: Perfect Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 01 Oct 2015
ISBN 10: 0241188474
ISBN 13: 9780241188477

Media Reviews
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. - The Guardian

I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov. - William Faulkner

The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in literature. - Andr Gide

A supreme writer...unforgettable vividness. - The Independent

Superb... The most addictive of writers... A unique teller of tales. - The Observer

Compelling, remorseless, brilliant. - John Gray

A truly wonderful writer... marvelously readable - lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the works he creates. - Muriel Spark

A novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were a part of it. - Peter Ackroyd

Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century. - John Banville

Author Bio
Georges Simenon was born in Liege, Belgium, in 1903. He is best know in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.