Maigret and the Old Lady

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Penguin, Feb 28, 2017 - Fiction - 192 pages
“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré

Inspector Maigret takes a case from a lively old widow whose maid has been poisoned

 
The inexplicable murder of the wealthy Valentine Besson’s maid leads the older woman to believe that she herself was the intended target. Inspector Maigret undertakes the investigation, meeting Mrs. Besson’s dysfunctional family and a cavalcade of suspects. As he delves into the case, Maigret must unravel a tangled web of family politics—and confront Valentine’s stepsons, who may be harboring dark secrets of their own.

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About the author (2017)

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in the English-speaking world as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories has 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.

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