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Maigret's Holiday

Inspector Maigret
By Georges Simenon
Series: Inspector Maigret
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Inspector Maigret's seaside holiday takes a mysterious turn when he discovers a cryptic note slipped into his left breast pocket. The unsigned message implores him to see a patient in room 15, pulling Maigret into a tense investigation amid the tranquil holiday setting.
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A local scandal intrudes on Maigret's seaside holiday in book twenty-eight of the new Penguin Maigret series. At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into his pocket, his left breast pocket? It was an ordinary sheet of glazed squared paper, probably torn out of an exercise book.

There is no rest for Inspector Maigret when his seaside holiday leads him to a troubling discovery

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There is no rest for Inspector Maigret when his seaside holiday leads him to a troubling discovery.

At what point in the day could the note have been slipped into his pocket, his left breast pocket? It was an ordinary sheet of glazed squared paper, probably torn out of an exercise book. The words were written in pencil, in a regular handwriting that looked to him like a woman's.

For pity's sake, ask to see the patient in room 15.

There was no signature. Only those words.

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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
“An astute observer of human nature, writing in a spare and vivid style.” — Amor Towles
“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” — John Le Carré
“One of the most important writers of our century.” — Gabriel García Márquez

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780141980744

Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 04 February 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Penguin Classics

Contributors:

  • Translated by Ros Schwartz
  • Translated by Ros Schwartz

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 128.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 158g

Pages: 208

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About the Author

Georges Simenon (Author) Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, Belgium in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life. Ros Schwartz (Translator) Ros Schwartz is an award-winning translator from French. Acclaimed for her new version of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince, published in 2010, she has over 100 fiction and non-fiction titles to her name. The French government made Ros a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2009, and in 2017 she was awarded the Institute of Translation and Interpreting's John Sykes Memorial Prize for Excellence.

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