My Friend Maigret (Inspector Maigret)

ISBN: 0241206391

Author: Simenon, Georges

Condition: New

A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason. -John Le Carré[My Friend Maigret] is a great vehicle for passing the dead minutesby pondering, with Maigret, the challenges of order versus chaos, how to serve justice, if it needs serving-and an island filled with nothing but phenomena. -The New York Times Book ReviewInspector Maigret investigates the murder of a small-time crook on a Mediterranean islandWhile Inspector Pyke of Scotland Yard is staying with Maigret to observe his methods, Maigret receives word of a murder in the Midi on the island of Porquerolles. The victim is Marcellin, a man who claims to have been Maigrets friend but was actually a criminal whose girlfriend, a sex worker, Maigret helped out of a scrape years ago.Travelling to the island, Maigret and Pyke must solve a mystery that takes them deep into the shadowy world of art forgery and the heart of an isolated community with eccentric inhabitants-and no shortage of secrets. My Friend Maigret is a page-turning mystery set in the sun-drenched south of France about what can happen when past acquaintances resurface.