Maigret at the Coroner's
| Category: | Book |
| Translated By: | Coverdale, Linda |
| By (author): | Simenon, Georges |
| Series: | Inspector Maigret |
| Subject: | FICTION / Crime |
| FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General | |
| FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural | |
| FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense | |
| Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group |
| Published: | January 2017 |
| Format: | Book-paperback |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Size: | 7.80in x 5.00in x 0.33in |
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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 In Arizona on a study tour of America, Inspector Maigret observes a day in the life of a local coroner and becomes absorbed in a young girl's murder On his travels through the U.S., Maigret stops in Tucson, Arizona at the guidance of his FBI friend Harry Cole, who leaves him one day to observe a coroner's inquest. The body being examined is that of Bessie Mitchell, a young girl who died under suspicious circumstances-she spent a night drinking and driving with five young Air Force men and was found the next morning on the tracks, run over by a train. Maigret quickly becomes engrossed in the hearing and the men's conflicting stories, leaving questions of who bears the guilt for this death and who can be trusted at all. |
| 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 (1903–1989) was born in Liège, Belgium. Best known in the English-speaking world as the author of the Inspector Maigret books, his prolific output of more than four hundred novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. |