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Maigret heads to an island off the Cote d'Azur in this new translation, part of the Penguin Maigret series There was a strong mistral blowing. I don't know what the mistral was doing there, but from what I've understood it has a certain importance. It's because of the mistral, in particular, that Marcellin, rather than going to sleep on his boat as he usually does, headed for a shack that stands near the harbour, where the fishermen store their nets.

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These Maigret books are as timeless as Paris itself. -<i>The Washington Post</i> Maigret ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals. -<i>People</i> Simenon created one of the great moral detectives . . . a master of the slow unfolding of the criminal mind. -John Mortimer A writer who, more than any other crime novelist, combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal. -P. D. James Simenon created some of the most enduring and compelling works of the twentieth century. -Iain Pears

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 Simenon created one of the great moral detectives . . . a master of the slow unfolding of the criminal mind. -John Mortimer A writer who, more than any other crime novelist, combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal. -P. D. James Simenon created some of the most enduring and compelling works of the twentieth century. -Iain Pears

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 Simenon created one of the great moral detectives . . . a master of the slow unfolding of the criminal mind. -John Mortimer A writer who, more than any other crime novelist, combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal. -P. D. James Simenon created some of the most enduring and compelling works of the twentieth century. -Iain Pears

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Georges Simenon (Author) Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, Belgium in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels 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. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

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