 Author Name: Simenon, Georges
Title: A Maigret Omnibus ( Maigret in Montmartre, Maigret's Mistake, Maigret Has Scruples, Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses, Maigret Goes to School)
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Good +
Edition: 5th Printing
Size: 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Publisher: London Hamish Hamilton 1965
Illustrator: Carter, Youngman (jacket)
Seller ID: 005446
Mustard colored cloth with silver lettering on spine, 525 pp. Spine slanted, corners bumped, some edge wear. Top corners bent in, the back corner markedly so, resulting in the last 60 pages having a small crease to the top corner. No markings to the text. Jacket has minor edge wear plus a small hole in the front edge of the spine (with corresponding ding to the board beneath), some darkening, spine is somewhat sunned, coffeecup style dampstain to front of jacket. Overall, a nice copy. Copyright page indicates this is the 5th printing, jacket states 4th impression, not price clipped. A collection of five full-length Maigret mysteries from the 1950s, the first three written whilst Simenon was living in Connecticut. Maigret in Montmartre (1951) and Maigret's Mistake (1953) were originally coupled under the title Maigret Right and Wrong. The other three are Maigret Goes to School (1954), Maigret has Scruples (1958), and Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses (1959). "We see the redoubtable detective investigating a killing in one of the many striptease clubs which Montmartre boasts, involved in the case of a murdered demi-mondaine and a distinguished doctor, fighting the prejudice of a close-knit community against their schoolmaster, caught up in the curious case of the electric trains salesman who suspects his wife of trying to murder him, and finally groping his way towards a solution in a decrepit mansion by the Seine, where the head of an almost bankrupt biscuit-manufacturing business has been found shot dead. In all these five stories the tension is acute, the psychology brilliant and the atmosphere superb."
Translated by Daphne Woodward, Alan Hodge, and Robert Eglesfield.
Mystery fiction, murder Mystery, Jules Maigret Fictitious character), Paris France, Continental European Fictional Works, Detective stories, Police Procedural,
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27.75 USD |
