New Releases by Georges Simenon

On his latest case, Maigret finds himself in the town of Delfzijl investigating the murder of a teacher. He is presented with two clues-a sailor's cap in the bathtub and a Manila cigar butt-and a gaggle of suspects, including a flirtatious farmer's daughter, an angry lawyer, a larcenous ship owner, an unaccountably frightened cadet, and a pompous criminologist with a revolver. The Inspector, in turn, is preoccupied with a suspicious pathway lit by a lighthouse beam, which leads him to wonder if this is the kind of spot where secret lovers might be discovered... Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon.

But Maigret discovers that the firm closed down three years earlier. So why had Louis concealed this from his wife and what did he do in Paris through the day ...?

Pourquoi Robert, dit le Grand Bob, a-t-il choisi de disparaître en se noyant au cours d'une partie de pêche ? Ami de Bob et de sa femme Lulu, le docteur Coindreau cherche dans le passé de cet homme au tempérament plutôt boute-en-train des éléments qui puissent élucider ce mystère. Issu d'une famille honorable, Bob a jadis abandonné ses études de droit pour vivre avec la légère et gentille Lulu, chapelière à Paris. Leur vie a été modeste mais heureuse. Alors ? Alors, Coindreau finira par comprendre le destin de deux êtres qui s'aimaient, et qui n'ont pas voulu être indignes l'un de l'autre...Une fois encore, le romancier du Petit Homme d'Arkhangelsk, créateur de Maigret, nous fait pénétrer dans le quotidien d'existences ordinaires, dont il sait comme personne exprimer l'humanité, et parfois la grandeur.

Un avion qui s'écrase au Congo sur le sol rouge d'une plantation de café et c'est une histoire d'amour qui commence, entourée de ses drames. De sa tension. De la chaleur des terres d'Afrique, des orages qui ne viennent pas, des voisins anglais ... L'attente ... Les tambours ... Des nouveaux venus qui deviennent fous ... [payot.ch]

C'était au cours de la nuit. L'enfant avait ouvert les yeux parc qu'elle croyait voir de la lumière. Il était penché sur le plancher et avait l'air de travailler. Il se sentit observé, se leva, vint vers le lit, y déposa une grande poupée, puis recula en mettant un doigt sur ses lèvres. Elle avait vu le Père Noël !

The extraordinarily patient Maigret cracks a most perplexing case, comme ca. For more than two decades, daring daylight jewelry store heists has plagued the Parisian inspector. When a Corsican immigrant, ex-pimp and sometime police informer, is found shot in the head in his wheelchair with his own gun, an entire generation of conspiracy begins to unravel.

Madame Maigret helps to solve the case of the two human teeth found in the furnace of a Flemish bookbinder, and blood stains on the suit of the suspect. But, without a body, will this case ever be solved.

Recueil de textes, d'articles et de conférences disséminés au hasard des périodiques. Outre le grand article radiophonique du titre, on y trouvera une vingtaine de courts portraits d'écrivains, trois préfaces, son discours de réception à l'académie de Belgique, un grand texte: "L'aventure est morte", des entretiens avec des médecins et cinq courts articles sur le roman policier. Préface contextante de Francis Lacassin.

Xavier Marton, the head of the toy department at the Grands Magasins du Louvre, a model train specialist, visits M to say that he thinks he wife wants to poison him, but leaves while M is out of the room. Later in the day the man's wife, Gisele Marton, also visits M, to tell her side of the story, which is that her husband is having delusions. Marton comes the next day, and agrees to have another examination with a psychiatrist. But he warns M that if she poisons him, he'll shoot her before he dies. Meanwhile, M has had both of them investigated, and finds that Gisele's sister, Jenny, is living with them, and that Marton is apparently enamored of her. Gisele, on the other hand, is apparently the lover of her employer, M. Harris. M has the house watched during the night, and by morning Marton is dead, accidentally poisoned by Jenny, when Gisele switched her cup of tea with her husband's. He had poisoned his own, with enough to make him sick, but not to kill him. Jenny thought he hadn't the nerve, so she added the poison to kill her sister.

Chief Superintendent Maigret investigates three baffling cases of murder and struggles to bring the killers to justice

For a weekend, the Arbelet family stops in Pouilly, at the Hôtel du Cheval-Blanc. Maurice Arbelet is immediately seduced by the atmosphere of the inn: he will keep in his memory the image of a very pleasant place. Singular characters are found there however: Felix, the night watchman, former colonial soldier who's become messy and cynical, an uncle of Mme Arbelet, lost for years; M. Jean, the owner of the hotel, who abuses his maids, Rose and Thérèse; and the latter's husband, a Pole, who only shows up when he needs money. Why does Maurice Arbelet come back alone one afternoon to the Cheval-Blanc? This novel explores the hidden links two different milieus have with one another: the landlords of the inn and their employees, and the members of a middle-class family who frequent the restaurant, related to one of those employees.

The near fatal shooting of a policeman takes Maigret into the art world-and Madame Maigret helps her husband solve the case. Translated by Margaret Duff. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book.

A Parisian gynecologist, over-burdened with responsibilities and losing his ability to respond correctly, passively allows a tragedy to happen.

An elderly woman who has repeatedly sought Chief Superintendent Maigret's help over an intruder in her apartment is mysteriously murdered.

"In 1960, 1961, and 1962, for personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty. Soon I shall be sixty-seven and I have not felt old for a long time. I no longer feel the need to write in notebooks, and those that I did not use I've given to my children." -- Preface.