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Maigret's Pickpocket: Inspector Maigret #66
By (Author) Georges Simenon
Translated by Sin Reynolds
Penguin Books Ltd
Penguin Classics
7th October 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and mystery: police procedural
Classic fiction: general and literary
Fiction in translation
843.914
Paperback
192
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 11mm
145g
Inspector Maigret falls victim to a pickpocket and is drawn into a peculiar incident A pickpocket steals Maigret's wallet only to return it the following day, on the condition that he visit the thief's apartment. When the thief leads Maigret to the body of his dead wife he becomes embroiled in an unusual murder case.
Georges Simenon (Author) Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, Belgium, in 1903. He is best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.