My Friend Maigret – Georges Simenon
My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon / ISBN 9780241630792 / 208-page hardback from Penguin
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Georges Simenon’s brilliant pipe-smoking detective, Jules Maigret, is one of the most beloved literary creations of the twentieth century. In this adventure, an officer from Scotland Yard is studying Maigret’s methods when a call from an island off the Côte d’Azure sends the two men off to an isolated community to investigate its eccentric inhabitants