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The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien: Inspector Maigret #3 by Georges Simenon
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret | Reading Level: near fine
Georges Simenon's haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, translated by Linda Coverdale as part of the new Penguin Maigret series. A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other ...Show more
The Hatter's Ghosts by Georges Simenon
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
A masterful tale of murder and intrigue in a small French town, from the celebrated author of the Maigret seriesNot only had the rain in the dark streets, with a halo around each light and reflections on the ground, always given him a certain thrill, it also made it easier for him to move around.It has ...Show more
The Judge's House by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret
Exiled from Paris, Maigret discovers some disturbing secrets in a sleepy coastal town in this new translation, book twenty-two in the new Penguin Maigret series. He went out, lit his pipe and walked slowly to the harbour. He could hear scurrying footsteps behind him. The sea was becoming swollen. The be ...Show more
The Krull House by Georges Simenon; Howard Curtis (Translator)
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough . . . or else that you are too foreign. Just as the Krull house sits on the edge of a rural French town, the family occupies a marginal place in the life of the community around them. Snubbed by the locals despite having lived t ...Show more
The Krull House by Georges Simenon; Howard Curtis (Translator)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough ... or else that you are too foreign Just as the Krull house sits on the edge of a rural French town, the family occupies a marginal place in the life of the community around them. Snubbed by the locals despite having lived there ...Show more
The Late Monsieur Gallet by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
George Simenon's devastating tale of misfortune, betrayal and the weakness of family ties, translated by Anthea Bell as part of the new Penguin Maigret series. Instead of the detail filling itself in and becoming clearer, it seemed to escape him. The face of the man in the ill-fitting coat just misted u ...Show more
The Little Man from Archangel by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
'A unique teller of tales ... What interested Simenon was the average man losing control of his own fate' Observer'She was beautiful, full of vitality, and he was sixteen years older, a dusty, lonely bookseller whose only passion in life was collecting stamps.'Jonas is used to his young wife disappearin ...Show more
The Madman of Bergerac (Maigret #15) by Georges Simenon; Ros Schwartz (Translator)
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Inspector Maigret Ser.
A new translation of Simenon's tense novel, book sixteen in the Maigret series. "He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep--was it really sleep?--his sighs and his sobbing. Then the two dangling legs, the patent-leather shoes and hand-knitted socks.... An insipid face. Glazed eyes. And Maigr ...Show more
The Mahe Circle by Georges Simenon; Sian Reynolds (Translator)
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Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The first English publication of Georges Simenon's compelling novel about summer escape and elusive obsessions. 'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son's bed, the deafening sound of cicadas' During his first holiday on the island of Porquerolles D ...Show more
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By by Georges Simenon
$12.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Pocket Penguin Classics
Kees Popinga is a clerk in a respectable shipping company. But just before Christmas, the firm goes bust, taking his life savings with it. Suddenly the mild-mannered family man snaps. He disappears to Amsterdam and Paris on a debauched spree. But when a prostitute is found murdered, Kees is the prime su ...Show more
The Man from London by Georges Simenon
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Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
On a foggy winter's evening in Dieppe, after the arrival of the daily ferry from England, a railway signalman habitually scrutinizes the port from his tiny, isolated cabin. When a scuffle on the quayside catches his eye, he is drawn to the scene of a brutal murder and his once quiet life changes forever ...Show more
The Man on the Boulevard by Georges Simenon
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Madame Thouret had no trouble identifying her husband's body. What puzzled her was that he was wearing light brown shoes and a garish tie she'd never seen before. Maigret masterfully reconstructs the secret life of a vulnerable man who has made a desperate attempt to evade the failure and isolation of h ...Show more