Maigret And The Minister

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524705411
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret and the Minister written by Georges Simenon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 When a public tragedy threatens to expose a scandal within the Paris government, the Minister of Public Works calls in a favor to Maigret A public project has collapsed and resulted in the death of 128 children after a report warning officials about the unsafe structure was disregarded. Now, that report has resurfaced, along with allegations that several politicians and contractors involved with the project may have suppressed its findings to avoid a scandal. Maigret must enter the shifty world of politics, dodged by members of the security police wherever he goes. In an unfamiliar world of decadent diplomatic officials, fanatic followers of political parties, and suspicious staff in politicians’ entourages, Maigret grimly sticks to what he knows best: finding the perpetrators of criminal acts.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Harvest Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret and the Calame Report written by Georges Simenon and published by Harvest Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inspector must enter the unsavory world of politics to help a conscientious politician. Maigret is secretly summoned by a distraught cabinet minister who needs help in recovering a document - the Calame report, an engineering study that warned that a government-funded children's sanitarium was of unstable design. The study was hushed up, the report stolen, and the disaster made reality - with 128 children killed in the building's collapse. Now Maigret must plumb the depths of government corruption to find the thief and the report - and let the compromised government fall where it may.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 024130380X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret's Failure written by Georges Simenon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a self-made man appeals to Maigret for protection at his lavish home, a years-old grudge from the past resurfaces and the inspector finds himself questioning his own motives. Conflict rather than harmony probably reigned in eight out of ten of the still magnificent houses that surrounded the park. But he had rarely had the opportunity to breath such a strained atmosphere as the one between these walls. Everything seemed fake, grating, starting with the lodge of the concierge-cum-manservant, who was neither a concierge nor a manservant, despite his striped waistcoat, but a former poacher, a murderer turned guard dog. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. 'His artistry is supreme' John Banville 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret and the Headless Corpse written by Georges Simenon and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret's Pickpocket written by Georges Simenon and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pickpocket helps himself to Maigret's wallet and which then leads him to a complicated case of murder. Police procedural.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780156028370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret and the Man on the Bench written by Georges Simenon and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2003-06-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mondays are nobody's favorite day, but when Maigret's week begins with a corpse found stabbed to death in a Parisian alley, the Inspector immediately sees a flaw. Murders are rarely committed on Mondays. That clue, along with the victim's strange recent behavior, leads Maigret to the cause of this nasty crime-and reveals the tale of a deadly marriage. Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of Georges Simenon.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141979518
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Liberty Bar written by Georges Simenon and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new translation of Georges Simenon's devastating novel set on the French Riviera, book seventeen in the new Penguin Maigret series. It had a smell of holidays. The previous evening, in Cannes harbour, with the setting sun, had also had the smell of holidays, especially the Ardena, whose owner swaggered in front of two girls with gorgeous figures.. Dazzled at first by the glamour of sunny Antibes, Maigret soon finds himself immersed in the less salubrious side of the Riviera as he retraces the final steps of a local eccentric. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret on the Riviera. 'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' Guardian 'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent

Author : Susan Bassnett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441121498
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Translator as Writer written by Susan Bassnett and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, interest in translation around the world has increased beyond any predictions. International bestseller lists now contain large numbers of translated works, and writers from Latin America, Africa, India and China have joined the lists of eminent, bestselling European writers and those from the global English-speaking world. Despite this, translators tend to be invisible, as are the processes they follow and the strategies they employ when translating. The Translator as Writer bridges the divide between those who study translation and those who produce translations, through essays written by well-known translators talking about their own work as distinctive creative literary practice. The book emphasises this creativity, arguing that translators are effectively writers, or rewriters who produce works that can be read and enjoyed by an entirely new audience. The aim of the book is to give a proper prominence to the role of translators and in so doing to move attention back to the act of translating, away from more abstract speculation about what translation might involve.

Author : Georges Simenon
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101992565
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Maigret Takes a Room written by Georges Simenon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “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 When a man is killed outside a Parisian boarding house, Inspector Maigret moves in to get to the bottom of it While keeping watch outside Mademoiselle Clément’s boarding house to await a suspect in a local bar robbery, a man named Janvier is shot in the chest. When Maigret, whose wife is away caring for her sister in Alsace, hears of the crime, he moves into the boarding house to solve the case. But the web quickly grows ever-more tangled, and Maigret must navigate generations-long secrets and a torrid affair to find his answers before it’s too late.

Author : Michael R. Pitts
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810836907
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous Movie Detectives III written by Michael R. Pitts and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book not only includes chapters on more than twenty new screen sleuths but also updates information on several detectives included in the first two volumes of Famous Movie Detectives. Author Michael Pitts also provides new material on sleuths in silent films and serials, as well as a listing of radio and television detective programs.