Signed, Picpus Contributor(s): Simenon, Georges (Author), Coward, David (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0241188466 ISBN-13: 9780241188460 Publisher: Penguin Books OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Crime - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - General |
Dewey: 843.912 |
LCCN: 2015298560 |
Series: Inspector Maigret |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.31 lbs) 176 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --The Guardian Maigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice in this page-turning mystery "Mechanically, he had put his pince-nez down on the blotter and looked at it there with his large, short-sighted eyes. It is at that moment that the strange thing happens. One of the lenses, acting as a mirror, reflected the criss-cross, hatched ink marks which had dried on the blotter and he could just make out a couple of words." When a fortune-teller is found murdered in her apartment, Maigret must find out not only who commited the crime, but why it was predicted in a note found earlier--signed by the unknown Picpus. |