«Gem-hard soul-probes . . . not just the world's bestselling detective series, but an imperishable literary legend . . . he exposes secrets and crimes not by forensic wizardry, but by the melded powers of therapist, philosopher and confessor»
Boyd Tonkin, The Times
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray
What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten in the evening.
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray
What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten in the evening.
But how? And why? And no one had heard a thing! She had not screamed. The two carters had not woken up.
Inspector Maigret is standing in the pouring rain by a canal. A well-dressed woman, Mary Lampson, has been found strangled in a stable nearby. Why did her glamorous, hedonistic life come to such a brutal end here? Surely her taciturn husband Sir Walter knows - or maybe the answers lie with the crew of the barge La Providence.
This novel has been published in previous translations as Lock 14 and Maigret Meets a Milord.
'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century' Guardian
«Gem-hard soul-probes . . . not just the world's bestselling detective series, but an imperishable literary legend . . . he exposes secrets and crimes not by forensic wizardry, but by the melded powers of therapist, philosopher and confessor»
Boyd Tonkin, The Times
«Terrific...the 75 Inspector Maigret books are almost uniformly wonderful. They are not crime or even detective fiction as ordinarily understood...they are about human foibles, moral failings and compromises, set in an evocatively atmospheric Paris»
David Mills, Sunday Times
«A great writer of detail, of atmosphere»
Leïla Slimani, Financial Times
«A genius … Simenon broke all the rules»
Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph
«Exceptional… Simenon’s writing still seems fresh…one of the great pleasures is the summoning of France’s many landscapes and accompanying social milieux . . . There is also, and it’s a chief glory of the books, a whole range of different Parises, from the shiny rich to the hypocritical bourgeois middle to the struggling, furious world of the poor, desperate and professionally criminal»
John Lanchester, Times Literary Supplement
«I never read contemporary fiction–with one exception: the works of Simenon»
T.S. Eliot
«One of the most important writers of our century»
Gabriel García Márquez
«An astute observer of human nature, writing in a spare and vivid style»
Amor Towles
– I fjerde bok om Maigret befinner han seg langs kanalene på jakt etter en brutal morder. Hans jakt utføres med sykkel, til fots, med båt og bil, men viktigst av alt hans blikk for detaljer. Absolutt en god bok for en hver som liker en god krim fortelling.