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Maigret Goes to School: Inspector Maigret #44

Maigret Goes to School: Inspector Maigret #44

by Georges Simenon (Author), Linda Coverdale (Translator), Georges Simenon (Author), Linda Coverdale (Translator)

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Synopsis

When a school teacher from a small coastal town near La Rochelle asks Maigret to help prove he is innocent of murder, the Inspector returns with him to his insular community and finds the residents closing ranks to conceal the truth. 'What was he doing there? A hundred times, in the middle of an investigation, he'd had the same feeling of helplessness or, rather, futility. He would find himself abruptly plunged into the lives of people he had never met before, and his job was to discover their most intimate secrets. This time, as it happened, it wasn't even his job. He was the one who had chosen to come, because a teacher had waited for him for hours in the Purgatory at the Police Judiciaire.' Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. 'His artistry is supreme' John Banville

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 01 Jun 2017
ISBN 10: 0241297575
ISBN 13: 9780241297575
Book Overview: Maigret heads to a small seaside town where the residents are closing ranks to hide the truth.

Media Reviews
Praise for Georges Simenon

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

These Maigret books are as timeless as Paris itself. --The Washington Post

Maigret ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals. --People

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 (London)

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

Compelling, remorseless, brilliant. --John Gray

A truly wonderful writer . . . Marvelously readable--lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the world 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.