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  • Maigret Travels (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 51 - Inspector Maigret
    A dead billionaire and a suicidal countess set Maigret on a trail across the Europe of the ultrarich.The attempted suicide of a countess and the discovery that an English billionaire has been murdered in his bathtub at the same luxury hotel on the same night embroil Maigret in the intrigues of the ultrawealthy, as he follows a trail from Paris to the Riviera and Switzerland. Suddenly thrust into a ... Read more

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  • The New Investigations of Inspector Maigret (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Ros Schwartz, Howard Curtis ...
    Series series Inspector Maigret
    Seventeen gripping short stories in which Simenon’s celebrated detective Maigret uncovers the darkness beneath ordinary lives.A hanged couple is found on a barge. A straightforward case of poisoning proves more complex than it seems. A young woman writes to Maigret fearing for her life. Time and again, the people of Paris find themselves in complex, deceitful, and terrifying scenarios—and only ... Read more

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  • The Krull House (Romans Durs)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series series Romans Durs
    A malicious interloper in a quiet family is the catalyst to tragedy, in this unnervingly prophetic tale of small-town groupthink in 1930s Europe.Twenty-five-year-old Hans Krull, from Germany, is finally visiting the French Krulls: Uncle Cornelius, Aunt Maria, and cousins Anna, Joseph, and Liesbeth. It would be best, they tell Hans, if he concealed his nationality: it’s the 1930s and the family, ... Read more

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  • Maigret and the Dead Girl (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 45 - Inspector Maigret
    When the body of a nameless young woman is discovered, Maigret must investigate the hidden lives of Paris’s lost girls.When a young woman is found dead in a rainy square in Montmartre, all Maigret has to go on is a cheap blue evening gown and single shoe. Following the traces of the victim’s final days from dress shops to late-night cafés and lodging houses, Maigret slowly builds up an image of a ... Read more

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  • The Man from London (Romans Durs)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series series Romans Durs
    A train signalman, who literally watches the world through glass, is jolted from passivity in this riveting tragedy of male alienation.From his elevated glass cabin at the ferry terminal, train signalman Louis Maloin can survey the whole of Dieppe. For thirty years of working the night shift, he hasn’t varied his routine. He smokes his pipe, drinks his coffee and brandy, and watches people. Then, ... Read more

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  • Maigret's Mistake (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 43 - Inspector Maigret
    When a young woman is murdered, her recent exit from grim poverty may be the key to cracking the case—but Maigret, to his disquiet, struggles to spot the right suspect.In an apartment in the exclusive Étoile district of Paris, the body of twenty-six-year-old Louise Filon is found. She’s been shot in the head at close range. Maigret, arriving on the disturbing scene, questions her housekeeper and ... Read more

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  • The Snow Was Dirty (Romans Durs)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series series Romans Durs
    “Simenon has concentrated noir into a darkness as solid and heavy as the interior of a dwarf star.” —William T. VollmannWhat happens to everyday morality in a time of political deceit and betrayal? In an unnamed city under military occupation, nineteen-year-old Frank—a low-level thug and thief—should be content enough with his warm home and full stomach, even against the dreariness of an endless ... Read more

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  • Maigret and the Headless Corpse (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 47 - Inspector Maigret
    When a man’s dismembered, headless corpse is found in a Paris canal, Maigret dives into a murky, depressing world of domestic intrigue to find the victim, the killer, the motive, and, perhaps, the missing head.The discovery of a dismembered corpse in a Paris canal sets Maigret on the trail of a bistro owner who may or may not have gone to the countryside, and his inscrutable, unhappy alcoholic ... Read more

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  • History of Bridgeport and Vicinity, Volume 1

    by George Curtis Waldo jr. ...
    In three huge volumes George Curtis Waldo jr. has amassed a wealth of information on the beautiful town of Bridgeport, Connecticut. Volume one spans the settlement of the town, its governments, military and educational history and much more. It also includes chapters on the evolution of nearby Stratford and Fairfield. Volumes two and three contain hundreds of biographical sketches of the most ... Read more

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  • The Cellars of the Majestic (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 21 - Inspector Maigret
    “Simenon could produce endless variations, as similar and as different as Shakespeare’s sonnets or Monet’s haystacks.” —Adam KirschWhen the glamorous wife of an American industrialist is murdered at a luxury Paris hotel, her past life as a nightclub dancer is the key to finding the killer. As Maigret traces surprising connections between the dead woman and the hotel’s belowstairs staff, a story of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Maigret's Memoirs (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 35 - Inspector Maigret
    In his own words, Maigret reflects on his legacy—and storytelling itself—in this metatextual meditation on narrative, policing, and truth.Is the real Inspector Maigret the mentally agile, physically ponderous detective of Georges Simenon’s famous novels? Or is this character a distorted facsimile of an actual person? In a startling turn of events, the original Jules Maigret of the Paris Police ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Maigret and the Lazy Burglar (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 57 - Inspector Maigret

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