'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray
It wasn't a traditional painter's smock that Madam Jonker was wearing. It was more a Dominican's monk's habit, the fabric as thick and soft as a bathrobe...She was holding a palette in her left hand, a brush in her right, and her black eyes lighted on Maigret with curiosity.
During an undercover case Inspector Lognon is shot in a room he was sharing with a beautiful woman who has since disappeared. Inspector Maigret retraces Lognon's secretive last few days and is drawn into the darker side of the art world.
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 Apparition.
'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 in his stories' Guardian
Georges Simenon was born in Liege, Belgium, in 1903. He is best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.
Title: Maigret and the Ghost: Inspector Maigret #62
Author: Simenon, Georges
ISBN: 9780241304037
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Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date: 2018-12-06
Number of Pages: 160
Weight: 0.1200 kg
Praise for Georges Simenon:
One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories. -The Guardian
These Maigret books are as timeless as Paris itself. -The Washington Post
Maigret ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals. -People
I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov. -William Faulkner
The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in literature. -Andre Gide
A supreme writer . . . Unforgettable vividness. -The Independent (London)
Superb . . . The most addictive of writers . . . A unique teller of tales. -The Observer (London)
Compelling, remorseless, brilliant. -John Gray
A truly wonderful writer . . . Marvelously readable-lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the world he creates. -Muriel Spark
A novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were a part of it. lle -Peter Ackroyd
Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century. -John Banville
