Pietr the Latvian Simenon GeorgesPaperback
Pietr the Latvian Simenon GeorgesPaperback "One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Simenon…
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"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel's atmosphere could not assimilate. Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The GuardianIn Simenon's famous first novel featuring Inspector Maigret, the laconic detective is taken from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he traces the true identity of Pietr the Latvian "Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic.
He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted.
He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man.
His firm muscles filled out his jacket and