Murder, treachery for the ages
Ten crime and espionage novels by British, American, Belgian and Japanese authors published between 1928 and 1978 are in a new series ...
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“The Widow Couderc” by Georges Simenon (published by Penguin Classics)
Greed, hate, jealousy poison human hearts
Georges Simenon could be a subtle writer. Take the very first words of this novel – “He was walking. For at least ...
“Maigret and the Penguin Books” (published by the Penguin Collectors Society)
Multitude of covers covering a multitude of sins
The world is divided neatly into collectors and others, the latter being people who scratch their heads trying to understand why there ...
“Ian Fleming & Georges Simenon. The World of Bond and Maigret” (published by ERIS gems)
Two best sellers chat and swap secrets
Writers Ian Fleming, an Englishman, 1908-1964, and Georges Simenon, a Belgian, 1903-1989, created two of the greatest characters in 20th-century fiction – ...
“The New Investigations of Inspector Maigret” by Georges Simenon (published by Penguin Books)
Human bloodhound gives evildoers short shrift
Georges Simenon having died in 1989, the uncovering now of any “new investigations” would be exciting news indeed for fans of our ...
“Simenon. The Man, The Books, The Films” by Barry Forshaw (published by Oldcastle Books)
Detective, defectives under the magnifying glass
I wouldn’t call it an obsession, as such, but certainly a deep fascination. It began decades ago with the many books and ...
“The Hatter’s Ghosts” by Georges Simenon (published by Penguin Books)
The art of cutting long stories (and words) short
Prolific he may have been but prolix he was not. Georges Simenon, the author of some 400 books (about half of them ...
“The Venice Train” by Georges Simenon (published by Penguin Books)
The ‘root of all evil’ fouls up another mind
People, places, plot – get the right balance between the three elements and your budding book is coming along. For Simenon it ...
“The People Opposite” by Georges Simenon (published by Penguin Books)
1984 in 1933 not 1949, and now again in 2022
Belgian author Georges Simenon (1903-89) lived in four countries and travelled worldwide but details of his visit to the USSR in the ...
“The Strangers in the House” by Georges Simenon (published by Penguin Books)
A man’s life regains meaning, as do the words that tell the tale
There is not one but two mysteries for we amateur sleuths to ponder here: first, Simenon’s actual plot, involving the obligatory killing ...
