Georges Simenon

Maigret is going about his work in rainy Paris, followed around by Inspector Pyke who has come from Scotland Yard to study the famous French detective's methods. Routine is disturbed when Maigret receives a telephone call from the island of Porquerolles off the Mediterranean coast. A small-time crook has been murdered, the night after he had...

SIMENON NIE POTRZEBUJE KILKUSET STRON, BY STWORZYĆ PORYWAJĄCY DRAMAT...Twórca postaci komisarza Maigreta pisał też powieści, w których zajmował się szukaniem "nagiego człowieka". A w analizowaniu ludzkich charakterów Simenon był mistrzem...Jacek Szczerba, "Gazeta Wyborcza"Dla Justina Calmara miała to być nudna podróż powrotna do domu w Paryżu z...

In a great courtroom drama, Maigret has to explain why he does not believe that Gaston Meurant was capable of slitting his aunt's throat for money and smothering a small child. But in saving him from the gallows, Maigret must expose some dark secrets about Meurant's life. This is a painful story of an oppressive domestic tragedy and the...

Takiego rejsu nawet najstarsi marynarze nie pamiętali. Ładownie trałowca "Ocean", który odławiał dorsze u wybrzeży Nowej Fundlandii, wypełniały gnijące ryby, a kapitan statku po kilku godzinach od przybicia do portu został znaleziony martwy w portowym basenie. Miejscowa policja uznała, że to morderstwo, i aresztowała młodego radiotelegrafistę,...

Newly translated for this edition.A young Frenchman, Joseph Timar, travels to Gabon carrying a letter of introduction from an influential uncle. He wants work experience; he wants to see the world. But in the oppressive heat and glare of the equator, Timar doesn't know what to do with himself, and no one seems inclined to help except Adele,...

Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get by; Frank takes it easy in his mother's whorehouse, which caters to members of the occupying forces. But Frank is restless. He is a pimp, a thug, a petty thief, and, asDirty Snowopens, he has just killed his first man. Through the unrelenting...