Maigret in New York: Inspector Maigret #27

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Maigret sails to New York in book twenty-seven of the new Penguin series He could still see him- short, thin, dressed almost too correctly. There was nothing special about his face. So what was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully . . .Little John had cold eyes! . . . Four or five times in his life, he had met people with cold eyes, those eyes that can stare at you without establishing any human contact, without giving any sense of the universal human need to communicate with one's fellow man.

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Praise for Georges Simenon:

One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century... Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories. The Guardian

These Maigret books are as timeless as Paris itself. The Washington Post

The matchless French crime novelist.Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker

Maigret ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals. People

I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov. William Faulkner

An astute observer of human nature, writing in a spare and vivid style. Amor Towles

I never read contemporary fictionwith one exception: the works of Simenon. T.S. Eliot

A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason. John Le Carr

One of the most important writers of our century. Gabriel Garca Mrquez

A favorite writer of mine.Sigrid Nunez

A great writer of detail, of atmosphere. Lela Slimani

Feels incredibly modernA great writer. Ian Rankin

The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in literature. Andr Gide

A supreme writer... Unforgettable vividness. The Independent (London)

Superb... The most addictive of writers... A unique teller of tales. The Observer (London)

Compelling, remorseless, brilliant. John Gray

A truly wonderful writer... Marvelously readablelucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the world he creates. Muriel Spark

A novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were a part of it. Peter Ackroyd

Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century. John Banville

"Gem-hard soul-probes. . . not justthe world's bestselling detective series, butan imperishable literary legend. . . he exposes secrets and crimes not by forensic wizardry, but by the melded powers of therapist, philosopher and confessor" Times (London)

"Strangely comforting. . . so many lovely bistros from the Paris of mid-20th C. The corpses are incidental, it's the food that counts." Margaret Atwood

"One of the greatest writers of the 20th century. . . no other writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set of characters - above all, an atmosphere." Financial Times

"Gripping. . .richly rewarding. . . You'll quickly find yourself obsessing about his life as you tackle each mystery in turn." Stig Abell, The Sunday Times (London)

Author Bio

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.