simenon georges the late monsieur gallet
Simenon Georges The Late Monsieur Gallet
The second book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's devastating tale of misfortune, betrayal and the weakness of family ties, in a new translation by Anthea Bell. Instead of the detail filling itself in and becoming clearer, it seemed to escape him. The face of the man in the ill-fitting coat just misted up so that it hardly looked human. In theory this mental portrait was good enough, but now it was replaced by fleeting images which should have added up to one and the same man but which refused to get themselves into focus. The circumstances of Monsieur Gallet's death all seem fake: the name the deceased was travelling under and his presumed profession, and more worryingly, his family's grief. Their haughtiness seems to hide ambiguous feelings about the hapless man. In this haunting story, Maigret discovers the appalling truth and the real crime hidden behind the surface of lies. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret Stonewalled and The Death of Monsieur Gallet.
2346 Руб.
Simenon Georges Monsieur Gallet, decede
La toute premiere prise de contact entre le commissaire Maigret et la mort, avec qui il allait vivre des semaines durant dans la plus deroutante des intimites, eut lieu le 27 juin 1930 en des circonstances a la fois banales, penibles et inoubliables. Inoubliables surtout parce que, depuis une semaine, la Police Judiciaire recevait note sur note annoncant le passage a Paris du roi d’Espagne pour le 27 et rappelant les mesures a prendre en pareil cas. Or, le directeur de la P.J. etait a Prague, ou il assistait a un congres de police scientifique. Le sous-directeur avait ete appele dans sa villa de la cote normande par la maladie d’un de ses gosses. Maigret etait le plus ancien des commissaires et devait s’occuper de tout, par une chaleur suffocante, avec des effectifs que les vacances reduisaient au strict minimum. Ce fut encore le 27 juin au petit jour qu’on decouvrit, rue Picpus, une merciere assassinee. Bref, a neuf heures du matin, tous les inspecteurs disponibles etaient partis pour la gare du Bois-de-Boulogne, ou on attendait le souverain espagnol. Maigret avait fait ouvrir portes et fenetres et, sous l’action des courants d’air, les portes claquaient, les papiers s’envolaient des tables. A neuf heures et quelques minutes arrivait un telegramme de Nevers : Emile Gallet, voyageur de commerce, domicilie a Saint-Fargeau, Seine-et-Marne, assassine nuit du 25 au 26, Hotel de la Loire a Sancerre. Nombreux details etranges. Priere prevenir famille pour reconnaissance cadavre. Si possible envoyer inspecteur de Paris.
1863 Руб.
Simenon Georges Tout Maigret. Tome 1
Une edition anniversaire: 10 volumes de "Tout Maigret" avec des couvertures originales creees par Loustal. Pierre Assouline signe une preface inedite pour le tome 1. Maigret, ce sont 75 romans et 28 nouvelles publies entre 1931 et 1972. Ce tome 1 regroupe les huit premiers Maigret parus en 1931. Il est preface par Pierre Assouline, biographe de Simenon, qui lui a notamment consacre un Autodictionnaire Simenon, un documentaire, et vient d'adapter plusieurs romans de Simenon pour le theatre radiophonique. Pietr-le-Letton Le Charretier de "La Providence" Monsieur Gallet, decede Le Pendu de Saint-Pholien La Tete d'un homme Le Chien jaune La Nuit du carrefour Un crime en Hollande Notes de Michel Carly
7918 Руб.
Simenon Georges Maigret et Monsieur Charles
Voila longtemps que Nathalie Sabin-Levesque sait a quoi s'en tenir sur les fugues de son mari. Tandis qu'elle sombre peu a peu dans l'alcool, rejetee par l'entourage de ce confortable notaire du faubourg Saint-Germain, Gerard, qui ne l'aime plus, se distrait dans les boites de nuit des Champs-Elysees, ou les professionnelles le connaissent sous le nom de monsieur Charles. Mais cela fait un mois maintenant que Gerard n'a pas reparu... C'est a l'histoire d'un couple depuis longtemps desuni que Maigret va s'interesser ici, telle que lui permettent de la reconstituer les temoignages des amis et des domestiques. Et a une femme dont l'ascension sociale aura ete payee du prix de la solitude et de la decheance.
1674 Руб.
Simenon Georges Maigret and Monsieur Charles
He needed to get out of his office, soak up the atmosphere and discover different worlds with each new investigation. He needed the cafes and bars where he so often ended up waiting, at the counter, drinking a beer or a calvados depending on the circumstances. He needed to do battle patiently in his office with a suspect who refused to talk and sometimes, after hours and hours, he'd obtain a dramatic confession. In Simenon's final novel featuring Inspector Maigret, the famous detective reaches a pivotal moment in his career, contemplating his past and future as he delves into the Paris underworld one last time, to investigate the case of a missing lawyer.
2310 Руб.
Simenon Georges The Pitards
Captain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards - and they've never let him forget it. When his temperamental wife Mathilde insists on coming along on the ship's first voyage, Lannec becomes increasingly unnerved by her presence, especially when he receives an anonymous note saying he won't make it back to port. As they hit a storm in the Atlantic, jealousy, spite, snobbery and suspicion are churned up in the boat's stiflingly close quarters... First published in 1935, The Pitards was one of the first novels Simenon wrote when he shelved his famous Maigret series in order to strike out in a new direction and make a name for himself as a literary writer. This gripping evocation of life at sea revolves around class and the tense unravelling of relationships, powerful themes that Simenon would return to throughout his writing career.
2346 Руб.
Simenon Georges The Hand
A new translation of George Simenon's taut, devastating psychological novel set in American suburbia. The inspiration for the new play by award-winning playwright David Hare. 'I had begun, God knows why, tearing a corner off of everyday truth, begun seeing myself in another kind of mirror, and now the whole of the old, more or less comfortable truth was falling to pieces' Confident and successful, New York advertising executive Ray Sanders takes what he wants from life. When he goes missing in a snow storm in Connecticut one evening, his closest friend begins to reassess his loyalties, gambling Ray's fate and his own future.
2311 Руб.
Simenon Georges Pietr the Latvian
The first novel which appeared in Georges Simenon's famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos. Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman. He didn't have a moustache and he didn't wear heavy boots. His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted. He shaved every day and looked after his hands. But his frame was proletarian. He was a big, bony man. His firm muscles filled out his jacket and quickly pulled all his trousers out of shape. He had a way of imposing himself just by standing there. His assertive presence had often irked many of his own colleagues. In Simenon's first novel featuring Maigret, the laconic detective is taken from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he traces the true identity of Pietr the Latvian. This novel has been published in previous translations as The Case of Peter the Lett and Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett.
2346 Руб.
Simenon Georges The Yellow Dog
The fifth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's gripping tale of small town suspicion and revenge, in Linda Asher's timeless translation. There was an exaggerated humility about her. Her cowed eyes, her way of gliding noiselessly about without bumping into things, of quivering nervously at the slightest word, were the very image of a scullery maid accustomed to hardship. And yet he sensed, beneath that image, glints of pride held firmly in check. She was anaemic. Her flat chest was not formed to rouse desire. Nevertheless, she was strangely appealing, perhaps because she seemed troubled, despondent, sickly. In the windswept seaside town of Concarneau, a local wine merchant is shot. In fact, someone is out to kill all the influential men and the entire town is soon sent into a state of panic. For Maigret, the answers lie with the pale, downtrodden waitress Emma, and a strange yellow dog lurking in the shadows... Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as A Face for a Clue.
2344 Руб.
Simenon Georges The Mahe Circle
'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a belljar under the sun, the scorpion in his son's bed, the deafening sound of cicadas' During his first holiday on the island of Porquerolles Dr Mahe caught a glimpse of something irresistible. As the memory continues to haunt him, he falls prey to a delusion that may offer an escape from his conventional existence - or may destroy him. This is the first English translation of The Mahe Circle, Simenon's dark, malevolent depiction of an ordinary man trapped in mundanity and consumed by obsession.
2346 Руб.
Simenon Georges The Shadow Puppet
A new translation of this gripping domestic tragedy, set in Simenon's very own neighbourhood. One by one the lighted windows went dark. The silhouette of the dead man could still be seen through the frosted glass like a Chinese shadow puppet. A taxi pulled up. It wasn't the public prosecutor yet. A young woman crossed the courtyard with hurried steps, leaving a whiff of perfume in her wake. Summoned to the dimly-lit Place des Vosges one night, where he sees shadowy figures at apartment windows, Maigret uncovers a tragic story of desperate lives, unhappy families, addiction and a terrible, fatal greed. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret Mystified and The Shadow in the Courtyard.
2346 Руб.
Simenon Georges The Flemish House
She wasn't an ordinary supplicant. She didn't lower her eyes. There was nothing humble about her bearing. She spoke frankly, looking straight ahead, as if to claim what was rightfully hers. 'If you don't agree to look at our case, my parents and I will be lost, and it will be the most hateful legal error...' Maigret is asked to the windswept, rainy border town of Givet by a young woman desperate to clear her family of murder. But their well-kept shop, the sleepy community and its raging river all hide their own mysteries. This novel has been published in a previous translation as The Flemish Shop.
2346 Руб.
Simenon Georges The Misty Harbour
A man picked up for wandering in obvious distress among the cars and buses on the Grands Boulevards. Questioned in French, he remains mute . . . A madman? In Maigret's office, he is searched. His suit is new, his underwear is new, his shoes are new. All identifying labels have been removed. No identification papers. No wallet. Five crisp thousand-franc bills have been slipped into one of his pockets. A distressed man is found wandering the streets of Paris, with no memory of who he is or how he got there. The answers lead Maigret to a small harbour town, whose quiet citizens conceal a poisonous malice. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Death of a Harbour Master.
2346 Руб.
Simenon Georges The Blue Room
A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust. It was all real: himself, the room, Andree still lying on the ravaged bed. For Tony and Andree, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the Hotel des Voyageurs. Their adulterous affair is intoxicating, passionate - and dangerous. Soon it turns into a nightmare from which there can be no escape. Simenon's stylish and sensual psychological thriller weaves a story of cruelty, reckless lust and relentless guilt.
2346 Руб.
Simenon Georges The Krull House
'It's not because you're foreigners. It's because you aren't foreign enough . . . or else that you are too foreign' Just as the Krull house sits on the edge of a rural French town, the family occupies a marginal place in the life of the community around them. Snubbed by the locals despite having lived there for decades, they rely on trade with passing sailors to earn a living. When their relative arrives unannounced from Germany, with his unsettling, nonchalant ways, the family becomes the target of increasing suspicion and the scapegoat for a terrible crime. Written on the eve of the Second World War, The Krull House is a taut, strangely prophetic novel about how distrust and hostility towards outsiders descends into hate-filled violence.
2346 Руб.
Simenon Georges The People Opposite
'You'll get used to things, you'll see. But you have to watch very carefully what you say and what you do.' Adil Bey is an outsider. Newly arrived as Turkish consul at a run-down Soviet port on the Black Sea, he receives only suspicion and hostility from the locals. His one intimacy is a growing, wary relationship with his Russian secretary Sonia, who he watches silently in her room opposite his apartment. But this is Stalin's world before the war, and nothing is as it seems. Georges Simenon's most starkly political work, The People Opposite is a tour de force of slow-burn tension.
2346 Руб.