β Scribed by Georges Simenon
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The attempted suicide of a countess and the death of a billionaire in the same luxury Paris hotel send Maigret to the Riviera and then to Switzerland, as he searches for the truth amid the glittering world of the super-rich.
Eyes half-closed, head tilted against the back of his seat, he seemed not to be thinking, as the plane flew over a thick carpet of bright clouds. In reality, he was making an effort to bring names and shadowy figures to life, names and figures that even this morning had been as unknown to him as the inhabitants of another planet.
Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret and the Millionaires.
'His artistry is supreme' John Banville
'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively...
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Maigret es una novela policΓaca de Georges Simenon escrita en enero y publicada en marzo de 1934: forma parte de la serie de Maigret. Hubo una publicaciΓ³n de una ediciΓ³n preoriginal en serial en el diario Le Jour, del 20 de febrero al 15 de marzo de 1934 (a saber, 24 episodios). Esta novela, la