

"A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason." --John Le Carr An Inspector Maigret mystery that brings the dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris to life In this riveting mystery from Georges Simenon,...


"Simenon could produce endless variations, as similar and as different as Shakespeare's sonnets or Monet's haystacks." --Adam Kirsch
When the glamorous wife of an American industrialist is murdered at a luxury Paris hotel, her past life as a nightclub dancer...
Release Date: Jan 6, 2026

Penguin delivers two more vintage Inspector Maigret novels by the legendary mystery author In The Hotel Majestic , Maigret investigates the murder of Mrs. Clark, the wife of a wealthy American industrialist, whose strangled body is found in the basement of an upscale hotel near...
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The dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris is brought to life in this new translation. Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess...in a suite that costs more than a thousand francs a day......

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