Maigret and the man on the boulevard : [an Inspector Maigret mystery

Three vintage Maigret novels by legendary mystery author Georges Simenon One of the world 's most successful crime writers, Georges Simenon has thrilled mystery lovers since 1931 with his matchless creation Inspector Maigret. In My Friend Maigret, Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a small- time crook on a Mediterranean island. Told in Simenon's spare, unsentimental prose, Inspector Cadaver is a haunting exploration of provincial hypocrisy and snobbery, in which Maigret encounters a rival sleuth from his past. In Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard, Simenon's tenacious detective pieces together the life of a man who for three years lived a secret life-until he is found stabbed to death in an alleyway.

Three vintage Maigret novels by legendary mystery author Georges Simenon

One of the world 's most successful crime writers, Georges Simenon has thrilled mystery lovers since 1931 with his matchless creation Inspector Maigret. In My Friend Maigret, Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a small- time crook on a Mediterranean island. Told in Simenon's spare, unsentimental prose, Inspector Cadaver is a haunting exploration of provincial hypocrisy and snobbery, in which Maigret encounters a rival sleuth from his past. In Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard, Simenon's tenacious detective pieces together the life of a man who for three years lived a secret life-until he is found stabbed to death in an alleyway.

"Louis Thouret is found stabbed in an alleyway off the Boulevard Saint-Martin. His wife seems unperturbed when she comes to indentify the body, but is perplexed to see that he is waring clothes she has never seen before. When Maigret begins to reconstruct the dead man's last days, he discovers that for three years Louis had lived a secret life while his wife believed he was at work. But what was his mysterious new source of income? And why did he spend his days sitting on a bench, watching the world go by?"--Back cover When Inspector Maigret investigates the brutal murder of a man found stabbed to death in an alley, he is forced to unravel the secret life of a victim who had sought an escape from his stifling conventional existence Afterward, Maigret had no difficulty in recalling the date, October 29, because it happened also to be his sister-in-law's birthday.