Felicie
| Category: | Book |
| Translated By: | Coward, David |
| By (author): | Simenon, Georges |
| Series: | Inspector Maigret |
| Subject: | FICTION / Crime |
| FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General | |
| FICTION / Mystery & Detective / International Mystery & Crime | |
| FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense | |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Published: | May 2016 |
| Format: | Book-paperback |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Size: | 7.81in x 5.08in x 0.37in |
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| From The Publisher* | "One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." -The Guardian A story of love and obsession featuring a most memorable femme fatale, starring the intrepid Inspector Maigret Peg Leg Lapie, a crusty old sailor, is found mysteriously murdered in a most incongruous setting: a picturesque cottage near Paris, where he lived attended only by his young housekeeper, Félicie. But Lapie was not alone-Maigret, chief inspector of the Paris police, is sure of it. A man at work in his garden, wearing clogs and a straw hat, does not suddenly drop his tools to go indoors and fetch a bottle of brandy to drink alone in the summerhouse. There must have been another glass that someone removed. But Félicie, in her red hat trimmed with an iridescent feather, proves a champion adversary, as skilled in innuendo and evasion as Maigret is in deduction. |
| Review Quote* | Praise for Georges Simenon: "One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." -The Guardian "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 "I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov." -William Faulkner "The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in literature." -André Gide "A supreme writer . . . Unforgettable vividness." -The Independent (London) "Superb . . . The most addictive of writers . . . A unique teller of tales." -The Observer (London) "Compelling, remorseless, brilliant." -John Gray "A truly wonderful writer . . . Marvelously readable-lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the world he creates." -Muriel Spark "A novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were a part of it."lle -Peter Ackroyd "Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century." -John Banville |
| Biographical Note | Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in the English-speaking world as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories has 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. David Coward is the award-winning translator of Albert Cohen's Belle du Seigneur and numerous other French works. |