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A Maigret Trio (Maigret's Failure, Maigret in Society, Maigret and the Lazy Burglar)

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1973

Seller ID: 8886

ISBN: 0151551391

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Good dust jacket

Ex-library with typical stamps, markings, and pocket. Spine a bit cocked, some edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in plastic protective wraps, taped to boards, some edge wear and rubbing. A good reading copy. ; This volume contains three Inspector Maigret mysteries originally published between 1956 - 1961. Translated by Daphne Woodward and Robert Eglesfield. ; Inspector Maigret; Ex-Library; 7 ¾" X 9 ¾"; 290 pages; "Maigret is shown faced with three very different deaths, and the various milieus are depicted with an equal surenessof touch. Maigret's Failure: The v...
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African Trio (Talatala, Tropic Moon, Aboard the Aquitaine)

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $27.50

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1979

Seller ID: 8574

ISBN: 0151039550

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Inspector Maigret and the Burglar's Wife

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $9.90

Publisher: Roslyn, NY, Walter J. Black: 1956

Seller ID: 003488

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Spine slanted, corners bumped, minor edge wear, half-ring dampstain on front board. Illustrated book plate inside cover. A little darkening but text is clean and unmarked. "The burglar's wife reported her husband had seen Maria lying dead, in a pool of her own blood. But why had the burglar skipped town? And why did Maria's prosperous dentist husband and aristocratic mother-in-law insist Maria had left Paris of her own free will? Here was a caper to baffle even the master sleuth. A case with too many clues -- and no crime. A killing with too many suspects -- and no corpse. Before...
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Maigret and the Black Sheep

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1976

Seller ID: 006069

ISBN: 0151551464

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light brown cloth spine over brown tweed cloth covered boards, red lettering, 158 pp. Slight spine slant, corners bumped, slight edge wear, owner's name stamped inside cover, binding tight. An attractive copy. "A phone call in the middle of the night brings Maigret to the scene of an apparently motiveless murder."; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Maigret and the Burglar's Wife

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Orlando, Harvest Books: 1991

Seller ID: 8500

ISBN: 0156028409

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Spine slanted, creased, cracked at page 46-47, plentiful library stickers and stamps, corners worn, minor edge wear and rubbing, text clean and unmarked. Reading copy. ; Translated by J. Maclaren-Ross. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 167 pages; " A safe-manufacturer-turned-burglar stumbles upon a dead body while committing a robbery: Will Maigret crack the case? " While committing what he intends to be his last burglary, 'Sad Freddie' discovers something completely out of his line: the body of a dead woman, her chest covered in blood, holding a telephone in her hand. Maig...
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Maigret and the Gangsters (Large Print)

By: Simenon, Georges; Varese, Louis (translator)

Price: $14.95

Publisher: Thorndike, Maine, Thorndike Press: 1986

Seller ID: 003229

ISBN: 0896217787

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Ex-library with usual markings and bar code on front board. Spine slanted, corners bumped, minor edge wear, a couple dings on front cover. Text appears clean and unmarked. Large print edition. "Maigret and the Gangsters finds Chief Inspector Jules Maigret of the Paris crime squad reluctantly helping the hapless Detective Lognon discover the identity of a body dumped from a passing car and immediately picked up by another, before the corpse is even cool. Maigret soon realizes he is dealing with genuine American gangsters, and everyone from Pozzo, a shady restaurateur, to ever-reliable L...
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Maigret and the Killer

By: Simenon, Georges (translated from the French By Lyn Moir)

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1969

Seller ID: 006728

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Spine somewhat slanted, ex-library with pocket and usual stamps, DJ in protective plastic wrap taped to yellow boards. Top corner of DJ wrinkled. Text is clean and unmarked. "'Somebody killed my boy. . . Why? But why?' Maigret and Madame Maigret were having their monthly dinner at the Pardons', Maigret's physician, when Pardon was called away to a young man lying wounded on the sidewalk. Accompanying Pardon, Maigret is drawn into one of the most perplexing and also potentially dangerous cases of his career."; Ex-Library; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
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Maigret and the Madwoman

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $6.95

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1972

Seller ID: 001256

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket

Corners bumped. Jacket shows some scuffing, especially in back, darkening, scuffs where stickers have likely been removed. "This is a very special case in Maigret's experince, in which he invests his heart as much as his ingenuity. A nice old lady, meticulously groomed and showing no signs of derangement, timidly tries to see the famous detective and finally accosts him in the street. She is frightened: someone invades her apartment during her absences. Nothing is missing. But, says she, there are minute changes in the positions of objects, which to her prove the presence of an intrude...
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Maigret and the Madwoman

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, Harvest / HBJ: 1979

Seller ID: 003455

ISBN: 0156551225

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Good

Spine slightly creased, a bit slanted, covers a bit creased and bowed out, corners bumped including some pages, book has a gentle curver to it. Text is clean and unmarked. "This is a very special case in Maigret's experince, in which he invests his heart as much as his ingenuity. A nice old lady, meticulously groomed and showing no signs of derangement, timidly tries to see the famous detective and finally accosts him in the street. She is frightened: someone invades her apartment during her absences. Nothing is missing. But, says she, there are minute changes in the positions of objec...
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Maigret and the Spinster

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $4.75

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace Jovanovich: 1982

Seller ID: 000940

Condition: Very Good+

0156551292 Slight shelf wear. small stain at bottom of front edge. Very clean copy. Translated by Eileen Ellenbogen "For six months a plain young woman had been pestering Maigret with the complain that the furniture in her apartment, shared with an aunt, mysteriously shifted position at night. Everyone at police headquarters was convinced it was all imagination, and they teased Maigret about his 'girl friend.' Her endless patience got on his nerves, and even her spinsterish look irritated him. No wonder he put off seeing her on a particularly busy day. It was a postponement he cam...
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Maigret and the Wine Merchant

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $4.50

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1980

Seller ID: 006074

ISBN: 015655125x

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Corners very slightly bumped. A bright, attractive copy. "One of the richest wine merchants in Paris has been murdered, in front of an elegant house used by couples for discreet meetings. At the victim's home and at his office, Maigret is surprised by a curious absence of shock or grief, and he begins to receive messages from a mysterious caller who assures him that the murdered man deserved what he got. Indeed, as Maigret probes into the life of the victim, singularly unlovable traits are revealed. And when Maigret finally meets the murderer, he is unusually reluctant to see him app...
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Maigret At the Crossroads

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Harmondsworth, England, Penguin: 1977

Seller ID: 183541

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Corners slightly bumped, some edge wear, reading crease. Owner's name on inside cover. A nice copy. ; Translated by Robert Baldick. ; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; 136 pages; "A classic among Simenon, this is the story of Maigret's night vigil at the Three Widows Crossroads, where the body of a Jewish diamond-merchant had been found. Pompous M. Michonnet, at one house, owned the car containing the corpse, aristocratic Carl Andersen, the Dane, owned the garage containing the car, and vulgar M. Oscar, at the service-station, simply sold petrol to all-comers. They none of them knew a ...
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Maigret Goes Home

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Harmondsworth, England, Penguin: 1976

Seller ID: 183551

ISBN: 0140019014

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Spine slightly slanted. Corners somewhat bumped, reading crease and slight edge wear. A nice copy. ; Translated by Robert Baldick. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 139 pages; "At the crack of dawn on a raw morning, Chief Inspector Maigret finds himself in the church of Saint-Fiacre in the village where he was raised. He's there as a result of an anonymous note threatening that someone would die in the church at the first Mass of All Souls' Day. The arrival of the Countess de Saint-Fiacre elicits many fond memories for Maigret, and as these recollections busy his mind, she rolls fro...
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Maigret Goes Home

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $15.00

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1989

Seller ID: 8885

ISBN: 0151551502

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good in Good dust jacket

Ex Library with the usual stamps, stickers and pocket. Spine cocked, slight edge wear. Jacket in plastic protective sleeve, glued to pastedowns, a little edge wear and rubbing. A good reading copy. ; Translated by Robert Baldick. ; Inspector Maigret; Ex-Library; 7 ¾" X 9 ¾"; 139 pages; "At the crack of dawn on a raw morning, Chief Inspector Maigret finds himself in the church of Saint-Fiacre in the village where he was raised. He's there as a result of an anonymous note threatening that someone would die in the church at the first Mass of All Souls' Day. The arrival of...
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Maigret Hesitates

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.: 1970

Seller ID: 004885

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Originally published under the title "Maigret Hesite." Spine slightly slanted. DJ slightly soiled with edgewear, two large and several tiny tears, and a 3/4" chip on back edge. Text is clean and attractive. "Despite the expensively elegant stationery, Inspector Maigret had given the anonymous letter very little thought. He was accustomed to receiving crank mail that spoke of unreported crimes and innocent victims. However, reading the letter more closely, he began to see something that disturbed him. . . it was the neurotic, power-crazed personality of a ruthless killer...
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Maigret Hesitates

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $11.50

Publisher: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.: 1970

Seller ID: 8575

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Red boards with black lettering, 182 pp, Book club edition. Corners bumped, slight edge wear, spine slightly cocked. Jacket in new Brodart, spine sunned, minor edge wear and chipping especially along spine, some sunning. A nice copy. ; Originally published under the title "Maigret Hesite." Translated from the French by Lyn Moir. ; 7¾" - 9¾" Tall; 182 pages; "Despite the expensively elegant stationery, Inspector Maigret had given the anonymous letter very little thought. He was accustomed to receiving crank mail that spoke of unreported crimes and innocent vic...
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Maigret in Exile

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $16.95

Publisher: New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: 1979

Seller ID: 8882

ISBN: 0151551472

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Black cloth with silver lettering, 162 pp. Spine slightly cocked, corners bumped, slight edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear and rubbing. An attractive copy. ; Translated by Eileen Ellenbogen. ; Maigret; 7 ¾" X 9 ¾"; 162 pages; "Maigret has fallen into disfavor with his Paris superiors and been spitefully shunted to a district supervisor's job in the provinces on the northern French coast. Here, among mussel-gathers and lobstermen, he suffers depression and boredom. He is an outsider; even the local police inspector is dull and predictable, as e...
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Maigret Sets a Trap (translated By Daphne Woodward)

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $4.95

Publisher: New York, Harvest / HBJ: 1979

Seller ID: 006571

ISBN: 0156551268

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good-

Spine slanted and creased, minor edgewear. Text is bright and clean. "Maigret is faced with a challenge. No fewer than five women have been murdered at night in the streets of Montmartre. All were knifed and had their clothing slashed. Who in the district has a grudge against women of the same sturdy build? After getting a psychological profile of the killer, Maigret decides to set a trap, risking a human life as bait. Everything is working according to plan - except that another, totally unexpected crime occurs."; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall
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Malempin

By: Simenon, Georges

Price: $7.95

Publisher: Gallimard: 1967

Seller ID: 003409

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good

Spine slightly slanted/creased, some edgewear/bumping, cover shows some creasing. Text is in French. A clean, unmarked copy.; 6¾" - 7¾" Tall; This synopsis is from The Family Lie, which is listed as a translation of Malempin. "A physician watches by the bedside of his son, who is stricken with diphtheria. Ordinarily he is too busy for introspection, but now the isolation forced upon him releases to the surface of his mind a traumatic experience from his own childhood, linked also to illness - a crime committed by his parents. Family ties appear as family lies, sus...
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Murder for Christmas

By: Godfrey, Thomas (editor); Marsh, Ngaio; Bowen, Marjorie; Chekhov, Anton; Hoch, Edward; Rinehart, Mary Roberts; Dickson, Carter; Kendrick, Baynard; Stevenson, Robert Louis; Runyon, Damon; Sayers, Dorothy; De La Torre, Lillian; Stout, Rex; Lewis, DB Wyndham

Price: $9.95

Publisher: New York, Avenel: 1989

Seller ID: 8832

ISBN: 0517690403

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Red boards with silver lettering, 465 pp. Corners bumped, a little edge wear and rubbing. Jacket in new Brodart, price clipped, a little edge wear. An attractive copy. ; 7 ¾" - 9 ¾" Tall; 465 pages; Illustrated with cartoons by Gahan Wilson. "Another perfect stocking stuffer for the person who has everything -- and plans to leave it to you. It's been said that Christmas brings out the best in everyone. This is certainly true of mystery writers, who seem to have been inspired to their best work by the holiday season. "Come and celebrate. Burn a Yule log with ...
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