Felicie (#25 aka Maigret and the Toy Village)

Author(s): Georges Simenon; David Coward (Translator)

Crime Fiction & Thrillers

"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The Guardian

A story of love and obsession featuring a most memorable femme fatale, starring the intrepid Inspector Maigret

 
Peg Leg Lapie, a crusty old sailor, is found mysteriously murdered in a most incongruous setting: a picturesque cottage near Paris, where he lived attended only by his young housekeeper, Félicie. But Lapie was not alone--Maigret, chief inspector of the Paris police, is sure of it. A man at work in his garden, wearing clogs and a straw hat, does not suddenly drop his tools to go indoors and fetch a bottle of brandy to drink alone in the summerhouse. There must have been another glass that someone removed. But Félicie, in her red hat trimmed with an iridescent feather, proves a champion adversary, as skilled in innuendo and evasion as Maigret is in deduction.

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"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." - "The Guardian" "I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov." - William Faulkner "The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in literature." -Andre Gide "A supreme writer unforgettable vividness." - "The Independent" "Superb... The most addictive of writers... A unique teller of tales." -"The Observer" "Compelling, remorseless, brilliant." - John Gray "A truly wonderful writer... marvelously readable - lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the works he creates." - Muriel Spark "A novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were a part of it." - Peter Ackroyd "Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century." - John Banville"

Georges Simenon was born in Liege, Belgium, in 1903. He is best know in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

General Fields

  • : 9780241188668
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : Penguin Books, Limited
  • : 0.127006
  • : November 2015
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 9mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : February 2016
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Georges Simenon; David Coward (Translator)
  • : Paperback
  • : 216
  • : English
  • : 843.912
  • : 192