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  • Published: 16 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241206379
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $27.99

Maigret's Dead Man

Inspector Maigret




Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in the latest addition to the Penguin Maigret series

Without the injuries, the man's face would have been unremarkable, fairly young and probably quite cheerful. Even in death, there were traces of something open and honest in his expression . . . That shoeless foot looked incongruous lying on the pavement next to another foot encased in a shoe made of black kid leather. It was naked, private. It did not really seem dead. It was Maigret who retrieved the other shoe which lay by the kerb six or seven metres away.

  • Published: 16 May 2024
  • ISBN: 9780241206379
  • Imprint: Penguin Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $27.99

About the author

Georges Simenon

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, 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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