Maigret at the Coroner’s

Name: Maigret at the Coroner's - Penguin Random House South Africa
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Georges Simenon, Linda Coverdale

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'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray

The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was incapable of figuring out anything . . .well, Maigret happened to believe that men and their passions are the same everywhere.

Maigret is touring the United States to observe American policing methods, when a visit to a coroner's inquest in Arizona draws him into the tragic story of a young woman and five airmen in the desert.

'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 in his stories' Guardian

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About the Author

Georges Simenon

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

Linda Coverdale

Linda Coverdale has a Ph.D. in French, is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and is the award-winning translator of almost fifty books. Her most recent honor is the 2006 Scott Moncrieff Prize for Jean Hatzfeld’s Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak.