by Georges Simenon
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The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (Pocket Penguin Classics) by Georges Simenon |
by Georges Simenon
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by Georges Simenon
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by Georges Simenon
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When Maigret arrives to visit a condemned prisoner who has only hours left to live, he thinks it will be a matter of awkward conversation and a final farewell. Instead, the prisoner provides our pipe-smoking, world-weary detective with a gruesome mystery that goes back six years and involves a tangle of secrets among Paris's cafe set. This time Maigret gets involved in a case that involves murder and blackmail, all revolving around the customers of a bar by the Seine. The mystery thickens when another murder takes place just as Maigret begins to ask some awkward questions; but, with his usual blend of intuition and ruthlessness, the detective finally gets to the murky truth. First published in 1931, the book comes with all the Simenon ingredients of terse prose, ingenious twists in the plot and a cast of bourgeois Parisians with seamy sides to their characters. Highly enjoyable. (Kirkus UK)
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Simenon wrote over 50 novels in the Maigret series, each providing the world-weary, pipe-smoking detective with an interesting murder which he solves with an unusual method of investigation, relying on experience, intuition and ruthlessness. Simenon writes in a terse French, skillfully using few words to describe things seen or felt. He is a matchless writer about France - both the France loved by tourists and its seamy, brutal underside. THE BAR ON THE SEINE is a classic example of his art.
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