Georges Simenon, Author Mariner Books $6 (182p) ISBN 978-0-15-655106-9
Investigating a Belgian emigre bookbinder accused of murder, Chief Inspector Maigret gets help from Mme. Maigret, who accidentally befriends a woman and little boy connected to the case. According to PW , ``This tale is looser in plot than other...
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Georges Simenon, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $13.95 (123p) ISBN 978-0-15-122700-6
This is not one of Simenon's acclaimed mysteries starring Inspector Maigret. Published 40 years ago in France, the story is admirably translated by Ellenbogen and retains the strength of the author's personality. The couple from Poitiers are Gerard...
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Georges Simenon, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $17.95 (152p) ISBN 978-0-15-137057-3
First published in France in 1938, this psychological thriller is eerily timely. Focusing on the activities of a terrorist group, Simenon paints a chilling portrait of revolutionary fervor and fanaticism gone awry. Pierre Chave is an idealistic...
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Georges Simenon, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $17.95 (166p) ISBN 978-0-15-155568-0
First published in 1931 in France and brought out in the U.S. nine years later, this early story by prolific Simenon (1903-1989) takes place in Liege, the author's birthplace. Two Belgian teenage boys hide out in the Gai-Moulin, a nightclub, after...
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Georges Simenon, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $16.95 (139p) ISBN 978-0-15-155150-7
Vintage Simenon, this novel was published first in 1931. Baldick's translation is rather elliptical but Inspector Maigret makes his presence felt as he returns to his boyhood home, Saint-Fiacre, where an unsigned note warns that a crime will be...
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Georges Simenon, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $17.95 (170p) ISBN 978-0-15-185910-8
Refining storytelling to near-Spartan brevity, Simenon is bound to provoke intense reactions to his fiction, whether policiers or ``straight novels'' like this one. Brain's translation of the 1958 French edition, true to the author's original,...
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Georges Simenon, Author, Howard Curtis, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15.95 (153p) ISBN 978-0-15-170509-2
Simenon's acute sensitivity to losers permeates this novel, in spite of a somewhat elliptical and incompatible translation of the 1941 French edition. The outlaw is Stan, who has fled persecution in his native Poland and is now penniless in Paris...
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Georges Simenon, Author, Howard Curtis, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $19.95 (150p) ISBN 978-0-15-192685-5
Written in 1939, this psychological novel betrays no aging in Curtis's seemingly literal translation of Simenon's disciplined, flavorful French. The setting is Rouen where Charles Dupeux returns from work one day and shuts himself off in the attic....
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Georges Simenon, Author, Anna Moschovakis, Translator, John Gray, Afterword by , trans. from the French by Anna Moschovakis. New York Review Books $12.95 (135p) ISBN 978-1-59017-228-5
First published in 1933, this new English translation of a short, bleak psychological drama from Simenon (1903–1989), creator of Inspector Maigret (Lock 14
, etc.), dispassionately describes the fate of the odd Mr. Hire, a reclusive middle-aged
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Georges Simenon, Author, Jean Stewart, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $13.95 (134p) ISBN 978-0-15-155148-4
First published in 1950, this make-believe autobiography harks back to the late 1920s. The account starts with Georges Sim's arrival at the Paris Police Judiciaire to soak up atmosphere for his crime novels by dogging the footsteps of Inspector...
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Georges Simenon, Author, Geoffrey Sainsbury, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (137p) ISBN 978-0-15-155149-1
In Simenon's latest mystery to be published here, a poignant tale deftly translated by Sainsbury, his famed detective Maigret must resist the beguiling vistas of the resort paradise of Antibes to concentrate on the murder of William Brown, a retired
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Georges Simenon, Author, Geoffrey Sainsbury, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $15.95 (138p) ISBN 978-0-15-163270-1
Not a mystery in the mode that has made Simenon universally famous, this is a classic psychological novel, issued in France in 1935 but like all other works of merit, timeless. The author's stringent control of his material deepens the reader's...
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Georges Simenon, Author, Geoffrey Sainsbury, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $13.95 (151p) ISBN 978-0-15-155570-3
Expertly translated by Sainsbury, this novel remains as intensely absorbing as when it first appeared in 1939. Here again is Inspector Maigret, guided by humane feelings behind his stolid facade, putting himself at grave risk to arrange the escape...
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Georges Simenon, Author, Louise Varese, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $14.95 (168p) ISBN 978-0-15-155565-9
Published in 1951 in France after Simenon's long stay in the U.S., this dandy story projects the author's experiences abroad onto famed Supt. Maigret. A body that vanishes after it's tossed from a speeding car arouses Maigret's suspicions that...
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Georges Simenon, Author, Louise Varese, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $18.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-15-191319-0
First published in France in 1942 and anthologized in the U.S. in 1953, this novella appears here for the first time in book form, with the author's spare prose receiving an elegant translation. When wealthy merchant Francois Donge is poisoned with...
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Georges Simenon, Author, Daphne Woodward, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $18.95 (138p) ISBN 978-0-15-126370-7
Chief Inspector Maigret remains in remarkably good humor tackling this knotty case involving a Belgian emigre bookbinder accused of burning a body in his furnace. The protracted search for evidence beyond the teeth found in the furnace and a blood-st
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Georges Simenon, Author, Robert Baldick, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $5.95 (139p) ISBN 978-0-15-655165-6
Inspector Maigret returns to his boyhood home, Saint-Fiacre, where an unsigned note warns that a crime will be committed in the church on All Souls' Day. During the services, the Countess de Fiacre dies of an apparent heart attack but Maigret...
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Georges Simenon, Author, Stuart Gilbert, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $22.95 (343p) ISBN 978-0-15-126310-3
This early (1937) novel by the world's bestselling author, who died in 1989, offers a rich feast to not only dedicated Simenon readers but to those who value certain literary traditions as well. In a story that owes much to Flaubert, the body of...
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Georges Simenon, Author, Tony White, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $17.95 (124p) ISBN 978-0-15-155566-6
The redoubtable chief inspector is startled when Leonard Planchon, a desperately unhappy fellow with a harelip, confesses to Maigret that he wants to kill his wife and Roger Prou, her virile young lover. For two years they have tormented him,...
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Georges Simenon, Author, John Petrie, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-15-103266-2
First published in French in 1945, the late Simenon's small gem of a novel is the claustrophobic tale of a solitary, unbalanced Parisian woman who lives vicariously through her neighbors, on whom she spies obsessively. Dominique watches through the...
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Georges Simenon, Author, Geroges Simenon, Author, Howard Curtis, Translator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P $18.95 (154p) ISBN 978-0-15-169475-4
Curtis's translation from Simenon's novel is merely competent, yet readers will feel the impact of the French original, published in 1955. The story was obviously inspired by the gifted author's temporary residence in a Connecticut town, here called
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