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Letter to My Judge
Haunting . . . this book sees Simenon reaching into the deepest recesses of the soul
€ 20,95 -
The New Investigations of Inspector Maigret (Inspector Maigret)
Seventeen gripping short stories in which Simenon's celebrated detective Maigret uncovers the darkness beneath ordinary lives. A hanged couple is found on a barge. A straightforward case of poisoning proves more complex than it seems. A young woman writes to Maigret fearing for her life. Time and again, the people of Paris find themselves in complex, deceitful, and terrifying scenarios-and only Maigret can uncover the truth. Written and published in journals during the Second World War, these seventeen short stories distill the atmosphere, themes, and psychological intensity that make Georges Simenon's famous detective series so compelling.
€ 21,00 -
Die Hand
Mitten in der Nacht, während draußen ein Jahrhundert-Schneesturm tobt, sitzt Donald Dodd in seiner Scheune. Er sollte aufstehen, rausgehen, seinen Freund Ray Sanders suchen, der auf dem kurzen Weg vom Auto ins Haus verschwunden ist und dem allein in der Kälte früher oder später der sichere Tod droht. Doch Donald raucht eine Zigarette nach der anderen. Erst als er - erfolgreicher Anwalt, liebender Ehemann und Vater, respektierter Mitbürger - glaubt, lange genug ausgeharrt zu haben, geht er ins Haus zu den besorgten Ehefrauen zurück. Tage später, als der Schnee zu tauen beginnt, bergen Rettungskräfte Rays Leiche. Einst haben die beiden Männer zusammen in Yale studiert. Donald hat Ray, Teilhaber einer renommierten Werbeagentur in der Madison Avenue mit einer riesigen Wohnung unweit des East River und zahlreichen Affären, immer bewundert. Aus Freundschaft wurde Konkurrenz, aus Neid Hass. Bis sich unverhofft die Gelegenheit zur Rache bot.
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La vecchia
'Lei non ha mai scritto niente di simile' disse una volta Paul Morand a Simenon, dopo aver letto "La vecchi"a. Il romanzo è quello che, a teatro, si definirebbe un 'huis clos': una vicenda la cui azione si svolge quasi interamente in uno spazio chiuso. La scena è un appartamento dell'Île Saint-Louis, a Parigi, dove quattro donne si osservano, si spiano, pronte in ogni momento a umiliare e a colpire. Sophie Émel, la proprietaria - celebre paracadutista che conduce un'esistenza molto dissipata e molto alcolica, e condivide la propria stanza da letto con giovani donne più o meno sbandate -, ha accettato, per una sorta di svagata curiosità, di ospitare la nonna, che non vede da tempo: una temibile ottantenne che si era barricata nella sua casa destinata alla demolizione, minacciando di buttarsi dalla finestra. Tra la giovane e la vecchia si innesca un complicato gioco al massacro, fatto di reciproci sospetti e sottili crudeltà, che finisce per coinvolgere anche l'ultima amichetta di Sophie e l'occhiuta domestica. In un'atmosfera ogni giorno più claustrofobica e inquietante, Simenon compone, in modo magistrale, un crescendo che sfocerà, inesorabilmente, nel la violenza.
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Brief an meinen Richter
Ein verregneter Abend kurz vor Weihnachten. Charles Alavoine, Landarzt in La Roche-sur-Yon, verpasst seinen Zug. Einst ein einfacher Bauernsohn, ist der junge Witwer in zweiter Ehe mit der selbstbewussten Tochter eines Grundbesitzers verheiratet. Der Standesunterschied überschattet die Verbindung. Ebenso wie Charles' Begegnung mit der jungen Frau am Bahnhof ... Der verurteilte Mörder Alavoine schreibt einen Brief an den Untersuchungsrichter Ernest Coméliau, den einzigen Menschen, von dem er sich während seines Prozesses verstanden gefühlt hat. Er berichtet ihm von seinem eintönigen Leben, der dominanten Ehefrau - und von seiner großen Liebe, die erstmals Leidenschaft und Glück in sein Dasein brachte, und von der Tat, mit der alles endete.
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Maigret at Picratt's (Inspector Maigret)
When a striptease dancer is brutally murdered, Inspector Maigret must haunt Montmartre's sleazy nightlife to find the killer.At the tiny basement club Picratt's, the striptease dancer Arlette is the star act. When she is brutally murdered, Maigret must join Arlette's twilight world to find her killer. A frustratingly elusive villain with more victims in his sights, the killer soon assumes terrifying proportions-and yet is Maigret overestimating the man's cunning, his talent for stealing through Montmartre like a ghost? And what is his shared history with an alleged countess, who's been selling her jewelry for drug money? Ensnaring the detective in a cat-and-mouse game as exhilarating as it is perilous, Maigret at Picratt's is a tense, unpredictable thriller and a glittering portrait of mid-century Paris after dark.
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Maigret's Mistake (Inspector Maigret)
When a young woman is murdered, her recent exit from grim poverty may be the key to cracking the case-but Maigret, to his disquiet, struggles to spot the right suspect.In an apartment in the exclusive Étoile district of Paris, the body of twenty-six-year-old Louise Fillon is found. She's been shot in the head at close range. Maigret, arriving on the disturbing scene, questions her housekeeper and the building's concierge. Despite an intuition that neither woman is giving him the full picture, he learns two facts of note: that Louise grew up in poverty and that she had two lovers, a penniless musician and a wealthy man who paid her bills. A love triangle, a crime of passion, seems the obvious line of investigation-and yet Maigret balks: he knows that applying a familiar template to the infinities of human nature can often lead an investigation astray. With exquisite psychological precision, Georges Simenon sets the inspector on a course that has him, and readers, second-guessing their every instinct as he orchestrates a whodunit like no other in Maigret's Mistake.
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Man from London (Romans Durs)
A train signalman, who literally watches the world through glass, is jolted from passivity in this riveting tragedy of male alienation.From his elevated glass cabin at the ferry terminal, train signalman Louis Maloin can survey the whole of Dieppe. For thirty years of working the night shift, he hasn't varied his routine. He smokes his pipe, drinks his coffee and brandy, and watches people. Then, one fateful winter's night, he witnesses a senseless murder. At a stroke, Maloin's status as an apathetic bystander is upended, and he knows nothing can ever be the same. But will his future be happier or bleaker, and can he tilt the scales either way? A provocative classic of philosophical fiction, The Man from London poses that most troubling of questions: If free will is an illusion, who or what is pulling our strings?
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Pitards (Romans Durs)
Aboard a cargo ship on a hazardous voyage, ominous prophecies cause troubling misapprehensions, disputes, paranoia, and ultimately tragedy.Émile Lannec thinks it's madness for his wife, Mathilde, to join him on the maiden voyage of his freighter, the Tonnerre-de-Dieu. She had insisted on coming, probably at the behest of her mother, Madame Pitard, who cosigned the loan to buy the ship. Predictably, Mathilde is appalled by the rough-and-ready conditions below deck, and she antagonizes the all-male crew. Compounding Lannec's strain is an ominous unsigned note he found on board, warning that the ship "will not reach safe haven." As they're battered by harsh winds and tides, emotions fray, the couple fights, and Lannec's suspicions spiral into paranoia. Which of his boatmates wrote the threatening note? And why did Mathilde really come? A tautly mesmerizing tale with the transcendent tenor of Greek tragedy, The Pitards sets man against nature while unmasking his true foes: gullibility, insecurity, and pride.
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Maigret, Lognon, and the Gangsters (Inspector Maigret)
An unidentified body, ruthless gangsters on the rampage, and Maigret's authority sabotaged-in this breakneck thriller, the inspector would rather risk his life than lose face.When a group of American gangsters carry out a brazen hit on Parisian soil, Maigret finds himself in dangerous territory. He's accustomed to the ways of homegrown criminals. But these US mobsters, who act with staggering impunity, use tactics he cannot predict. To make matters worse, his prime witness is Lognon, a cop so unlucky he's said to be cursed.Can Maigret deliver the justice that, he's told, keeps eluding the FBI? The skepticism he encounters, and the ominous warnings to stay in his lane, only steel his determination to vindicate the Police Judiciaire. A heart-stopping crime thriller from a master of the art, Maigret, Lognon, and the Gangsters takes Georges Simenon's hardened detective far out of his-and our-comfort zone.
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Krull House (Romans Durs)
A malicious interloper in a quiet family is the catalyst to tragedy, in this unnervingly prophetic tale of small-town groupthink in 1930s Europe.Twenty-five-year-old Hans Krull, from Germany, is finally visiting the French Krulls: Uncle Cornelius, Aunt Maria, and cousins Anna, Joseph, and Liesbeth. It would be best, they tell Hans, if he concealed his nationality: it's the 1930s and the family, who owns a grocery, suffers discrimination for their German heritage. Yet nonchalant, charismatic Hans, who takes pleasure in causing discomfort, instead flaunts his Germanness. Then a local girl is raped and murdered, and a terrifying wave of hostility swells against the Krulls. For decades they've been living discreetly, hoping to shed their image as sinister foreigners. Now their worst fears are realized. The only answer is for Hans to leave France, to disappear-but will he? With The Krull House, Georges Simenon proves himself not only a fearless explorer of psychological depths, but a social critic with startling prescience.
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Maigret's Revolver (Inspector Maigret)
A firearm filched from his own apartment, a politician's corpse, and an ostentatious woman of mysterious means-in Maigret's latest case, he must connect the dots before tragedy strikes twice.When Maigret's revolver is stolen from his apartment, under the nose of Madame Maigret, he knows he must act fast. The Smith & Wesson .45, a gift from the FBI, has a very sensitive trigger. And anyone who bothers to steal a revolver certainly plans to use it. Within forty-eight hours, the investigation turns up a deranged baron who collects Maigret press cuttings; a dead politician, his corpse stuffed into a trunk; and a high-living woman of dubious means. To untangle these threads and apprehend his thief, Maigret dashes to London's Savoy Hotel-where, sleep-deprived in jarringly luxurious surroundings, he starts to question his understanding of the whole case. A finely turned mystery and a wry commentary on wealth's corrosive allure, Maigret's Revolver is Georges Simenon at his worldly-wise best.
€ 21,50