Félicie Paperback by Georges Simenon; Translated by David Coward

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Books (2016-05-17)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 192 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780241188668
• Item Weight: 130.41 grams
• Dimensions: 7.78 x 5.07 x 1.41 cm

“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré

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.

About the Author

Georges Simenon (1903–1989) was born in Liège, Belgium. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of more than four hundred novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe.

David Coward is the award-winning translator of Albert Cohen's Belle du Seigneur and numerous other French works.