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The Yellow Dog by Georges Simenon
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The small French town of Concarneau is a summer resort. In winter it becomes the deserted, rain swept scene for a series of murder attempts that attract the interest of Maigret. While his assistant Leroy uses "science" and "deductions" to trace the murderer, Maigret's instincts unerringly guide him to t ...Show more
The Yellow Dog: Inspector Maigret #5 by Georges Simenon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret
This is 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 way of gliding noiselessly about without bumping into things, of quiverin ...Show more
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
"Simenon's romans durs are extraordinary: tough, bleak, offhandedly violent, suffused with guilt and bitterness, redolent of place ...utterly unsentimental, frightening in the pitilessness of their gaze, yet wonderfully entertaining." - John Banville An actor, recently divorced, at loose ends in New Yor ...Show more
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon
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Category: Fiction
A recently divorced actor and a no less lonely woman meet by chance in a New York diner. The city - its bars, its cheap motels, and its rented rooms - becomes the cinematic setting of the couple's escalating and mysterious relationship. A move against desperation and drift, their affair nevertheless glo ...Show more
Tropic Moon by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
"Simenon's romans durs are extraordinary: tough, bleak, offhandedly violent, suffused with guilt and bitterness, redolent of place ...utterly unsentimental, frightening in the pitilessness of their gaze, yet wonderfully entertaining." - John Banville A young Frenchman, Joseph Timar, travels to Gabon car ...Show more
When I Was Old by Georges Simenon
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Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty'. Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', ...Show more