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"A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason." --John Le Carr

Inspector Maigret steps in when an anonymous note to the police reports that a body has been burned in a bookbinder's furnace

In "The Friend of Madame Maigret," Simenon's economic prose brilliantly portrays the Marais quarter of Paris and those who haunt its narrow streets as Inspector Maigret attempts to prove that a murder has actually been committed without a corpse anywhere to be found. As the investigation... Read Full Overview

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray When he got to his door, he was surprised not to hear any noise in the kitchen and not to smell any food. He went in, crossed the dining room, where the table had not been laid, and at last saw Madame Maigret, in her slip, busy taking... Read Full Overview

On Rue de Turenne, two human teeth are found in the old furnace of a Flemish bookbinder, who is taken into custody. A neighboring shoemaker is willing to talk, but his stories vary with each trip he makes to the local tavern. The case seems impossibly perplexing until Madame... Read Full Overview

En mystisk mordsag t rer p? den piberygende kriminalkommiss r Jules Maigret. En lille parisisk bogbinder er mist nkt for at have dr bt en mand og br ndt liget i sit centralfyr, men under s?danne omst ndigheder er det sv rt at fremskaffe nogen beviser. Lige indtil Maigrets kone... Read Full Overview