A gripping new <\/b>translation<\/b> of the <\/b>iconic<\/b> short story collection featuring Simenon’s celebrated literary detective<\/b><\/p>\n
‘The truth was, Maigret knew nothing! Maigret felt. Maigret was sure he was right, would have bet his life on it. But in vain he’d turned the problem over a hundred times in his head, in vain he’d had every taxi driver in Paris questioned’<\/i><\/p>\n
A sumptuous mansion hiding terrible crimes, a distressed young woman’s cry for help, a gunshot on a rainy Dieppe street, a runaway couple with a secret: these seventeen Inspector Maigret short stories, written and published in journals during the Second World War, show Simenon’s celebrated detective uncovering the darkness beneath ordinary lives.<\/p>\n
These stories have been published in a previous translation as Maigret’s Pipe<\/i><\/p>\n
‘Not just the world’s bestselling detective series, but an imperishable literary legend . . . he exposes secrets and crimes not by forensic wizardry, but by the melded powers of therapist, philosopher and confessor’ Boyd Tonkin, The Times<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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