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When a salesman from a Paris department store confides his secret fears to Maigret, the Inspector soon becomes caught up in a treacherous feud between husband and wife that is not as clear cut as it seems.

When one of his best inspectors is shot, Maigret decides to book himself into Mademoiselle Clément's well-kept Paris boardinghouse nearby in order to find the culprit. 'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an irony which was neither less cheerful nor less childish, but which troubled him....'

A young cabaret dancer in a black silk dress leads Maigret into a seamy world of nightclubs, drug addiction and exploitation on the streets of Montmartre. 'He opened the door for her and watched her walk away down the huge corridor, then hesitate at the top of the stairs. Heads turned as she passed. You sensed she came from a different world, the world of the night, and there was something almost indecent about her in the harsh light of a winter's day.'

Leaning on the banisters, Madame Maigret watched her husband going heavily downstairs.... What the newspapers didn't know was how much energy he put into trying to understand, how much he concentrated during certain investigations. It was as if he identified with the people he was hunting and suffered the same torments as they did.

During an undercover case Inspector Lognon is shot in a room he was sharing with a beautiful woman who has since disappeared. Inspector Maigret retraces Lognon's secretive last few days and is drawn into the darker side of the art world.

Set against a high-profile hunt for the latest criminal gang to hit Paris, Maigret is determined to track down the murderer of a quiet crook for whom he cannot help feeling affection and respect. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret and the Idle Burglar.

Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', are one of the most candid self-portraits of a writer ever put to paper. Here, as the celebrated author ruthlessly examines his tortuous writing methods, his past, his fame, his intimate relationships and his fears of ageing, the result is an unsparing, often painfully revealing insight into a man trying both to find and to escape himself.

A once-wealthy family closes ranks when one of their own is shot, leaving Maigret - along with a troublesome new magistrate - to pick his way through their secrets.

When a self-made man appeals to Maigret for protection at his lavish home, a years-old grudge from the past resurfaces and the inspector finds himself questioning his own motives. Conflict rather than harmony probably reigned in eight out of 10 of the still magnificent houses that surrounded the park. But he had rarely had the opportunity to breath such a strained atmosphere as the one between these walls.

Maigret uncovers some troubling family politics in this new translation, book 33 of the Maigret series. When a charming elderly widow appeals to him for help, Inspector Maigret travels to a seaside village in Normandy - uncovering a lost fortune and some poisonous family politics.

Mit Kommissar Maigret schuf Georges Simenon eine der eindrucksvollsten Figuren der Kriminalliteratur – leise, beharrlich und zutiefst menschlich. Diese 20 Hörspiele aus vier Jahrzehnten (1953–1994) lassen Maigrets Welt neu lebendig werden: das nächtliche Paris, verrauchte Cafés, elegante Boulevards und düstere Hafenkneipen. Statt aus Action entfaltet sich Spannung aus Atmosphäre, feiner Psychologie und dem genauen Zuhören eines Ermittlers, der seine Fälle mit Geduld und Menschenkenntnis löst.

The first English publication of Georges Simenon's compelling novel about summer escape and elusive obsessions. 'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a bell jar under the sun, the scorpion in his son's bed, the deafening sound of cicadas.' During his first holiday on the island of Porquerolles, Dr Mahé caught a glimpse of something irresistible. As the memory continues to haunt him, he falls prey to a delusion that may offer an escape from his conventional existence - or may destroy him.

'I had begun, God knows why, tearing a corner off of everyday truth, begun seeing myself in another kind of mirror, and now the whole of the old, more or less comfortable truth was falling to pieces.' Confident and successful, New York advertising executive Ray Sanders takes what he wants from life. When he goes missing in a snowstorm in Connecticut one evening, his closest friend begins to reassess his loyalties, gambling with Ray's fate and his own future.

A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust. It was all real: himself, the room, Andrée still lying on the ravaged bed. For Tony and Andrée, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the Hôtel des Voyageurs. Their adulterous affair is intoxicating, passionate - and dangerous. Soon it turns into a nightmare from which there can be no escape.

Enthält: Maigret macht Ferien (28. Fall) / Maigret und sein Toter (29. Fall) / Maigrets erste Untersuchung (30. Fall) / Mein Freund Maigret (31. Fall) / Maigret in Arizona (32. Fall) / Maigret und die alte Dame (33. Fall) / Madame Maigrets Freundin (34. Fall). Im 28. Fall machen die Maigrets Ferien an der französischen Atlantikküste. Der Kommissar langweilt sich – erst recht, seit Madame Maigret im Krankenhaus liegt. Er besucht sie jeden Tag und vertreibt sich die restliche Zeit in den Bistros der Hafenstadt.

Bretagna, una camera d’albergo d'estate, una storia di amour fou che infrange ogni regola e precipita verso il delitto. Considerato uno dei romanzi più avvincenti di Simenon, si apre con un incipit memorabile: una donna giace nuda sul letto sfatto di un albergo, dopo aver fatto l'amore in un pomeriggio d'estate. I due amanti, la sensuale Andrée e il mite emigrante italiano Tony, s'incontrano da undici mesi nella camera azzurra che dà il titolo al romanzo, dove vivono la loro travolgente passione.

People find Mr Hire strange, disconcerting. The tenants he shares his building with try to avoid him. He is a Peeping Tom, a visitor of prostitutes, a dealer in unsavoury literature. He is also the prime suspect for a brutal murder that he did not commit. Yet Mr Hire's innocence will not stand in the way of those looking for a scapegoat as tragedy unfolds in this quietly devastating and deeply unnerving audiobook.

In seinem 35. Fall erzählt Maigret höchstpersönlich aus seinem Leben – und Simenon muss schweigen. Als Rentner in seinem Landhaus in Meung-sur-Loire schreibt Maigret seine Memoiren. Er erinnert sich an seine Kindheit, seine Anfänge bei der Polizei und an seine Liebe zu Madame Maigret, die ein gewisser Georges Simenon nicht ganz wirklichkeitsgetreu gezeichnet hat – wie so vieles andere auch… Kommissar Maigret muss einiges zurechtrücken.

Crime, thriller, and noir fans will delight in this fourth volume of The Greatest Mysteries of All Time, an exciting series featuring short fiction by legendary writers, past and present. From Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway, and Georges Simenon to Lawrence Block and Sara Paretsky, this unique collection—compiled and edited by multi-award-winning mystery connoisseur Otto Penzler—is a captivating mixture of mystery and suspense.

In seinem Ur-Maigret, dem 0. Fall der Maigret-Reihe, der erst 2020 erstmals ins Deutsche übertragen wurde, fühlt man sich sogleich in die typische Szenerie eines Maigret-Romans versetzt: ein Pfeife rauchender Kommissar, diesige Pariser Nächte und seltsame Gestalten auf den Straßen. Es ist spät geworden, die Büros am Quai des Orfèvres sind verwaist. Nur bei Kommissar Maigret bullert noch der Kanonenofen. Da bekommt er überraschend Besuch: Eine junge Frau bekennt sich eines Mordes für schuldig. Nachdem Maigret kurz abgelenkt wird, ist sie verschwunden.