Georges Simenon

Maigret Takes a Room (Inspector Maigret)

Übersetzer: Whiteside, Shaun

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Produktbeschreibung

After a shooting outside a boarding house, Maigret moves in and watches the locals. Everyone seems desperately ordinary-so who is concealing a dangerous secret? While staking out a boarding house on a quiet street, Maigret's colleague Janvier is shot by a mysterious assailant. Keen to gather evidence, Maigret takes the unusual step of moving into the house. It's surprisingly comfortable and the landlady is charm itself-but, the inspector wonders, is her relentless good cheer a ruse? And is something sinister afoot in the apartment opposite, where an invalid woman never leaves her room? Only by observing this small community's daily routines, seemingly so mundane, can Maigret divine the bizarre truth of who shot Janvier-and why. Composed with Georges Simenon's trademark economy and wit, Maigret Takes a Room is a hypnotic reminder that beneath ordinary surfaces, disturbing sins lurk.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador USA
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 191mm x 127mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781250425959
• ISBN-10: 1250425956
• Artikelnr.: 76292249

Autorenporträt

Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was born in Liège, Belgium. An intrepid traveler with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand-and not to judge-the human condition in all its shades. His books include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon.

Rezensionen

One of the greatest writers of the 20th century . . . no other writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set of characters - above all, an atmosphere John Banville Financial Times