The Madman of Bergerac
Georges Simenon - Author
ISBN 9781440628634 | 176 pages | 05 Jun 2007 | Penguin | 8.26 x 5.23in | 18 - AND UP
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One of the world’s most successful crime writers, Georges Simenon has thrilled mystery lovers around the world since 1931 with his matchless creation Inspector Maigret. In The Madman of Bergerac, Maigret gets caught up in an investigation in a provincial French town terrorized by a maniacal murderer—only after being shot following a man who has mysteriously jumped off a moving train. The Madman of Bergerac captures the obsessive snobbery and hypocrisy of small-town bourgeoisie.
Maigret ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals. (People)Simenon remains an incredibly expert, dry, and inventive storyteller; the spell is infallible. (V. S. Pritchett) Simenon created one of the great moral detectives . . . a master of the slow unfolding of the criminal mind. (John Mortimer) A truly wonderful writer, marvelously readable—lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with that world he creates. (Muriel Spark) A writer who, more than any other crime novelist, combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal. (P. D. James) |
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