Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, Belgium, in 1903. He is best known 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.
Not just the world's bestselling detective series, but an
imperishable literary legend . . . he exposes secrets and crimes
not by forensic wizardry, but by the melded powers of therapist,
philosopher and confessor.
*The Times*
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.
*Guardian*
One of Simenon's masterpieces ... Simenon's subject is how people
who are pushed to the edge push themselves over it; the force of
the sleuthing is that of psychoanalysis, not police
interrogation.
*The New Yorker*
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