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Author: Simenon, Georges, Coward, David
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Published on 3 March 2016 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Inspector Maigret' series.
Paperback | 240 pages
197 x 131 x 14 | 186g
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray
Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series.
'That shoeless foot looked incongruous lying on the pavement next to another foot encased in a shoe made of black kid leather. It was naked, private . . . It was Maigret who retrieved the other shoe which lay by the kerb six or seven metres away'A series of strange phone calls leads Inspector Maigret through the Paris streets towards a man out of his depth amid a network of merciless criminals.
This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret's Special Murder.
'His artistry is supreme' John Banville'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent
