The Madman of Bergerac: Inspector Maigret #15 - Georges Simenon
The Madman of Bergerac: Inspector Maigret #15 - Georges Simenon This is a new translation of Simenon's tense novel, book fifteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. - his sighs, and his sobbing. He…
Specifikacia The Madman of Bergerac: Inspector Maigret #15 - Georges Simenon
The Madman of Bergerac: Inspector Maigret #15 - Georges Simenon
This is a new translation of Simenon's tense novel, book fifteen in the new Penguin Maigret series. - his sighs, and his sobbing. He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep - was it really sleep?
Glazed eyes. Then the two dangling legs, the patent-leather shoes and hand-knitted socks...an insipid face. And Maigret was not surprised to see a grey beard eating into his cheeks.
This is a distressed passenger leaps off a night train and vanishes into the woods. Maigret, on his way to a well-earned break in the Dordogne, is soon plunged into the pursuit of a madman, hiding amongst the seemingly respectable citizens of Bergerac. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations.
"Compelling, remorseless, brilliant." (John Gray). "One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century...Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." (Guardian). "A supreme writer...unforgettable vividness." (Independent).
Georges Simenon was born in Liege, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.