Georges Simenon

Jonas Milk, "il signor Jonas" per i commercianti della place du Vieux-Marché, ha una libreria d'occasione, un temperamento mite e una moglie, Gina Palestri...

Le agognate vacanze alle Sables d'Olonne hanno preso una piega imprevista per la signora Maigret, ricoverata in clinica per un improvviso attacco...

Chi tra le tre donne che hanno contato per Roger Couchet, il ricco imprenditore che è stato trovato ucciso da un colpo di pistola nel suo ufficio...

Martine, una donna giovane e pallida dal cappellino ridicolmente sformato, entra per caso nella vita di un medico, un uomo dall'esistenza grigia che non...

Parigi, cinque del pomeriggio di un venerdì d'agosto, Jules Maigret avrebbe voglia di una birra fresca, invece è costretto ad attendere una chiamata. Il giorno prima si è concretizzata la minaccia.

Chiamato a Concarneau per indagare sul misterioso ferimento di un negoziante di vini, Maigret si trova ad affrontare una serie di omicidi...

A thought-provoking mystery unfolds in a small coastal Dutch town after a host’s private party ends in murder. A French professor is staying in a coastal Dutch town while on a lecture tour—but when his host is murdered, he’s held for questioning as the prime suspect. Maigret’s assistance...

Sophie Émel è una donna carismatica e fuori dagli schemi: pilota spericolata, amante degli eccessi e di una vita disordinata, capace di slanci generosi quanto superficiali. È proprio uno di questi impulsi a spingerla ad accogliere in casa la nonna, un'anziana di ottant'anni dal carattere durissimo.

Era diventata la favola del commissariato, la povera Cécile. Da sei mesi arrivava lì di buon mattino, si sedeva e sperava che Maigret la ricevesse...

Se «la vecchia» ha proprio con lui, Vladimir, un rapporto così speciale, è perché loro due si somigliano: provano entrambi un profondo disgusto per tutto quanto li circonda, e la medesima pietà per se stessi.

Isabel è dolce, serena, indulgente, e in diciassette anni non gli ha mai rivolto un rimprovero. Eppure basta uno sguardo a far capire a Donald che lei intuisce, e non di rado disapprova, le sue azioni.

In the heart of the Parisian summer, a forgotten crime comes to light in this Inspector Maigret tale from Georges Simenon. On the eve of his death, a condemned man remembers a crime he witnessed years before. With only the name of a bar to direct him, Maigret joins a party of summering revelers...

In a dimly lit apartment building, where shadowy figures come and go, a man has been killed in Georges Simenon’s The Shadow Puppet. On the dimly lit Place des Vosges, Maigret hears the sound of a woman in distress. But this is no crime; she is giving birth in a room above. The lights of the...

“Simenon could produce endless variations, as similar and as different as Shakespeare’s sonnets or Monet’s haystacks.” —Adam Kirsch When the glamorous wife of an American industrialist is murdered at a luxury Paris hotel, her past life as a nightclub dancer is the key to finding the...

An eerie mystery in which a local wine dealer is shot and a strange yellow dog starts to circle the town—Inspector Maigret must navigate small-town dynamics to find the elusive culprit. Late at night in a small seaside town, not a single light is on, and everyone is asleep. Or almost everyone...

“Open any of his novels—from the outset, the magic operates: from the first paragraph you are caught in the jaws of a trap that will not release you until the full-stop at the end of the last page, and even then with the book closed, you remain dizzy and panting as you try to regain your...

A gripping novel that sees Maigret brought out of his peaceful retirement. When Maigret’s police officer nephew is framed for a gangland murder, the former chief inspector must swap his countryside retirement for his old stomping ground: Paris’s seamy underworld. Fueled by regular tipples...

In The Misty Harbor, a missing harbormaster turns up, only to be murdered on his first night home, in another captivating tale featuring Georges Simenon’s intrepid Inspector Maigret. A man, clad in brand-new clothes with no identification, is found on the streets of Paris. Mute, he also has a...

“I’ve read a lot of Simenon, who’s a favorite writer of mine.” —Sigrid Nunez In a run-down Paris suburb, housebound widow Juliette Boynet is strangled. For Inspector Maigret, this murder hits home more than most: he’s well acquainted with Juliette’s live-in carer, her selfless...

“The most extraordinary fictive shaper in our time.” —George Steiner Exiled to a sleepy town in western France, Maigret is relieved when he has to handle a challenging case. There’s been a murder in a mussel farming village and its most respected resident, the former judge Monsieur...