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Betty by Georges Simenon
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A searing exploration of a woman's hidden destructive impulses from one of the great writers of the twentieth century'There was no longer that ambivalent inconsistency between her words and thoughts, no more fever, no more artificial heat, no more vagueness. Instead was the truth in all its rawness, in ...Show more
Death Threats: And Other Stories by Georges Simenon
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A new selection of stories featuring the celebrated literary detective, Inspector MaigretAn ageing boxer caught in a love triangle. A wealthy Parisian family on the brink of collapse. A mysterious murder in a hotel in Cannes.These tales of human frailty and deceit - three of which are being published in ...Show more
Maigret's Revolver (#40 Inspector Maigret) (Crime & Espionage Claasics) by Georges Simenon
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Maigret goes to London on the trail of a young man on the runWhen Maigret's prized gun goes missing, he must travel to London on the trail of a troubled young man on the run. Maigret's Revolver is a wonderful picture of both London and Paris and one of Simenon's most ingenious and satisfying stories. ...Show more
The Hatter's Ghosts by Georges Simenon
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
A masterful tale of murder and intrigue in a small French town, from the celebrated author of the Maigret seriesNot only had the rain in the dark streets, with a halo around each light and reflections on the ground, always given him a certain thrill, it also made it easier for him to move around.It has ...Show more
The Little Man from Archangel by Georges Simenon
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'A unique teller of tales ... What interested Simenon was the average man losing control of his own fate' Observer'She was beautiful, full of vitality, and he was sixteen years older, a dusty, lonely bookseller whose only passion in life was collecting stamps.'Jonas is used to his young wife disappearin ...Show more
The People Opposite by Georges Simenon
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
An extraordinary tale of betrayal from the celebrated author of the Maigret series On the shore of the Black Sea, on the edge of the Soviet Union, a little city has a new Turkish consul. Adil Bey - alone in an alien land - has taken the job after the mysterious death of his predecessor. Receiving only ...Show more
The Strangers in the House by Georges Simenon
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
'Quite simply a masterpiece' John Banville'I've just found a stranger in my house. In a bed on the second floor. He was dying when I got there. You're going to have to deal with it'Hector Loursat has been a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years ago. Shut away in his dilapidated mansion ...Show more
The Widow Couderc by Georges Simenon; Sian Reynolds (Translator); Siân Reynolds (Translator)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
'Sensuously detailed . . . edgy . . . riveting' Financial TimesTwo strangers meet on a bus along a dusty road in rural France. Tati is a tough, work-worn widow, who runs the farm her late husband left behind, while trying to keep out of the way of her predatory in-laws. Jean is an odd, quiet man, recent ...Show more
Three Bedrooms in Manhattan by Georges Simenon
$24.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A recently divorced actor and a no less lonely woman meet by chance in a New York diner. The city - its bars, its cheap motels, and its rented rooms - becomes the cinematic setting of the couple's escalating and mysterious relationship. A move against desperation and drift, their affair nevertheless glo ...Show more
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