Georges Simenon

Monsieur Froget, the examining magistrate, interrogates a series of variously alienated misfits in trenchant dialogues that reveal not whodunit - the title of each story identifies the culprit - but how and why.

The work of Georges Simenon is a continent. André Gide, who was asked what to read by the creator of Maigret, replied: "Everything". Reprinted for the 100th anniversary of Georges Simenon's birth, this massive 27 volume set includes all material that Georges Simenon published. Each volume's cover is made from a photograph taken by the author who was also a journalist.

A killer stalking the streets of Montmartre has murdered five women and Maigret is making no head-way in the case. After consulting the distinguished psychiatrist, Professor Tissot, he decides to use psycho-logical means to trap the killer. Firstly, he fakes an arrest, hoping that the murderer, in a fit of jealousy at someone stealing his thunder, will strike again. And he provides him with scores of suit-able potential victims in the shape of policewomen, proficient in the art of judo. The trap has been set.

Maigret had only a faint idea of what it was all about when he arrived one May afternoon in Delfzijl, a small town squatting on the low coast in the extreme northeast of the Netherlands.

Out the window / Lawrence Block Major crimes / Loren D. Estleman Silent warning / William J. Carroll, Jr. The third man / Graham Greene The cross of Lorraine / Isaac Asimov Nameless enemy / Miriam Allen DeFord Tragedy of a handkerchief / Michael Innes Unc foils show foe / John Jakes Dangerous widows / Mignon G. Eberhart Ride the lightning / John Lutz Till Tuesday / Jeremiah Healy The day of the losers / Dick Francis The case of the Pietro Andromache / Sara Paretsky Susu and the 8:30 ghost / Lillian Jackson Braun The investigation of things / Charles Ardai The trailor murder mystery / Abraham Lincoln The importance of trifles / Avram Davidson The double-barrelled detective story / Mark Twain The adventure of the oval window / John H. Dirckx Your appointment is cancelled / Antonia Fraser Le Chateau de L'Arsenic / Georges Simenon The nine mile walk / Harry Kemelman Crime in rhyme / Robert Bloch [The Purloined Letter]( / Edgar Allan Poe [The man with the twisted lip]( / Arthur Conan Doyle

Contains four Inspector Maigret novels: "Maigret and the Pickpocket", "Maigret and the Toy Village", "Maigret's Rival", and "Maigret in Vichy".

Maigret finds himself drawn into an unsavory world of political corruption, scandal and cover ups when he is summoned to a clandestine meeting by a desperate government minister one evening.

Recueil de textes, d'articles et de conférences disséminés au hasard des périodiques. Outre le grand article radiophonique du titre, on y trouvera une vingtaine de courts portraits d'écrivains, trois préfaces, son discours de réception à l'académie de Belgique, un grand texte: "L'aventure est morte", des entretiens avec des médecins et cinq courts articles sur le roman policier. Préface contextante de Francis Lacassin.