Madame Maigret's Friend Paperback by Georges Simenon; Translated by Howard Curtis

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Books (2017-03-28)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 192 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780241240168
• Item Weight: 149.69 grams
• Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.0 x 0.46 cm

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

Inspector Maigret steps in when an anonymous note to the police reports that a body has been burned in a bookbinder’s furnace
 
An anonymous note to the police reports that a body has been burned in the furnace of a bookbinder on the Rue de Turenne. Preliminary investigations turn up suspicious details—and two human teeth of a man who’d been alive not long before. Meanwhile, Madame Maigret has had a strange experience while waiting for her dentist appointment. A woman she had often met on the bench while waiting suddenly leaves her young child in Madame Maigret’s care and disappears for over an hour, returning to take the child and vanishing without explanation. When Maigret’s investigation is blown wide open, it seems the two incidents might be related in ways no one could have predicted.

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.