The fourth book in the new Penguin Maigret series- Georges Simenon's tragic tale of lost identity, in a gripping new translation by David Coward.
What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten in the evening.
But how? And why? And no one had heard a thing! She had not screamed. The two carters had not woken up.
Inspector Maigret is standing in the pouring rain by a canal. A well-dressed woman, Mary Lampson, has been found strangled in a stable nearby. Why did her glamorous, hedonistic life come to such a brutal end here? Surely her taciturn husband Sir Walter knows - or maybe the answers lie with the crew of the barge La Providence.
Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as Lock 14 and Maigret Meets a Milord.
'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
%%%The fourth book in the new Penguin Maigret series- Georges Simenon's tragic tale of lost identity, in a gripping new translation by David Coward.
What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten in the evening.
But how? And why? And no one had heard a thing! She had not screamed. The two carters had not woken up.
Inspector Maigret is standing in the pouring rain by a canal. A well-dressed woman, Mary Lampson, has been found strangled in a stable nearby. Why did her glamorous, hedonistic life come to such a brutal end here? Surely her taciturn husband Sir Walter knows - or maybe the answers lie with the crew of the barge La Providence.
Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as Lock 14 and Maigret Meets a Milord.
'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
The fourth book in the new Penguin Maigret series- Georges Simenon's tragic tale of lost identity, in a gripping new translation by David Coward.
What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten in the evening.
But how? And why? And no one had heard a thing! She had not screamed. The two carters had not woken up.
Inspector Maigret is standing in the pouring rain by a canal. A well-dressed woman, Mary Lampson, has been found strangled in a stable nearby. Why did her glamorous, hedonistic life come to such a brutal end here? Surely her taciturn husband Sir Walter knows - or maybe the answers lie with the crew of the barge La Providence.
Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as Lock 14 and Maigret Meets a Milord.
'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
%%%The fourth book in the new Penguin Maigret series- Georges Simenon's tragic tale of lost identity, in a gripping new translation by David Coward.
What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten in the evening.
But how? And why? And no one had heard a thing! She had not screamed. The two carters had not woken up.
Inspector Maigret is standing in the pouring rain by a canal. A well-dressed woman, Mary Lampson, has been found strangled in a stable nearby. Why did her glamorous, hedonistic life come to such a brutal end here? Surely her taciturn husband Sir Walter knows - or maybe the answers lie with the crew of the barge La Providence.
Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as Lock 14 and Maigret Meets a Milord.
'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
'What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes!
Georges Simenon (Author)
Georges Simenon was born in Li ge, Belgium, in 1903. He is best
known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his
prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him
a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in
Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of
his life.
David Coward (Translator)
David Coward is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of
Leeds and has translated many books from French for Penguin
Classics.
Praise for Georges Simenon:
“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
“These Maigret books are as timeless as Paris itself.” —The
Washington Post
“The matchless French crime novelist.” —Adam Gopnik, The New
Yorker
“Maigret ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional
detective immortals.” —People
“I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov.” —William
Faulkner
“An astute observer of human nature, writing in a spare and vivid
style.” —Amor Towles
“I never read contemporary fiction–with one exception: the works of
Simenon.” —T.S. Eliot
“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion
as with reason.” —John Le Carré
“One of the most important writers of our century.” —Gabriel García
Márquez
“A favorite writer of mine.” —Sigrid Nunez
“A great writer of detail, of atmosphere.” —Leïla Slimani
“Feels incredibly modern…A great writer.” —Ian Rankin
“The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in
literature.” —André Gide
“A supreme writer . . . Unforgettable vividness.”
—The Independent (London)
“Superb . . . The most addictive of
writers . . . A unique teller of tales.” —The
Observer (London)
“Compelling, remorseless, brilliant.” —John Gray
“A truly wonderful writer . . . Marvelously
readable—lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the world he
creates.” —Muriel Spark
“A novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were a part of
it.” —Peter Ackroyd
“Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century.” —John
Banville
"Gem-hard soul-probes . . . not just the world's
bestselling detective series, but an imperishable literary
legend . . . he exposes secrets and crimes not by forensic
wizardry, but by the melded powers of therapist, philosopher and
confessor" ―Times (London)
"Strangely comforting . . . so many lovely bistros from the
Paris of mid-20th C. The corpses are incidental, it's the food that
counts." ―Margaret Atwood
"One of the greatest writers of the 20th century . . . no
other writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as
Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set
of characters - above all, an atmosphere." ―Financial Times
"Gripping . . . richly rewarding . . . You'll
quickly find yourself obsessing about his life as you tackle each
mystery in turn." ―Stig Abell, The Sunday Times (London)
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