The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien

by Georges Simenon

Book Overview

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

Inspector Maigret finds himself tangled up in a dreadful death, in Georges Simenon's haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt

While in Brussels on police business, Inspector Jules Maigret witnesses a strange act: a scruffy-looking man counts out a large amount of currency and mails it...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141393459
• ISBN13: 9780141393452
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Two friends

Many will know Simenon for his detective novels, which are among the best of the genre. Rather less will have read his "straight" novels, of which The Girl With A Squint is one. Simenon covers familiar literary ground in this story of two friends-- one plain and the other beautiful-- but the familiarity is never tired, and although slight it is certainly worth the time to read.