Georges Simenon

Dust jacket design by Paul Bacon. Translated by Willard R. Trask. The story of the relationship between a serial killer who has murdered five women in three weeks and the one person who knows his identity but does not dare to denounce one of the city's leading citizens.

While interrogating a penniless delinquent about a sordid crime, Maigret is called to the scene of an utterly different murder, one of the richest wine merchants in Paris is dead. "Georges Simenon's Chief Inspector Maigret belongs to the Paris of today as surely as Holmes did to gaslit London." (The New York Times)

The Patience of Maigret is a 1940 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. Maigret searches for evidence that an old nemesis of his is behind a series of jewel robberies. Maigret believes the ageing gangster is organising a gang from his apartment. However, when the …

Maigret and the Yellow Dog is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.