Maigret’s World: A Reader’s Companion to Simenon’s Famous Detective
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| Rating | : | 4.98 (795 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1476669775 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 581 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. "This book has quickly become an invaluable tool, an indispensable reference for me and all those who, like me, work with this prodigious saga."--John Simenon, Georges Simenon's son and Maigret scholar
Murielle Wenger, a former teacher living in Switzerland, has dedicated the greater part of her free time during the past ten years to studying the works of Simenon. She is webmaster of the site on the series Maigret with Bruno Cremer, and that of the series Les enquetes du commissaire Maigret with Jean Richard. . He created and continues to maintain the
Georges Simenon's 75 novels and 28 short stories featuring Chief Inspector Jules Maigret provide us with a great deal of information about the French police detective--but only in small, episodic doses. This book presents all the canonical facts and details about the detective and his world in one place, presented with tabulations and analyses that enable a better understanding of the works and of Maigret himself.. As readers become acquainted with Maigret one detail at a time, he slowly takes on a flesh-a