The Late Monsieur Gallet (Inspector Maigret)

Praise for Georges Simenon: “One of the greatest writers of the twentieth centuryxa0.xa0.xa0. 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 “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 “The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in literature.” —André Gide “A supreme writerxa0.xa0.xa0. Unforgettable vividness.” — The Independent (London) “Superbxa0.xa0.xa0. The most addictive of writersxa0.xa0.xa0. A unique teller of tales.” — The Observer (London) “Compelling, remorseless, brilliant.” —John Gray “A truly wonderful writerxa0.xa0.xa0. 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.”lle —Peter Ackroyd “Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century.” —John Banville"Gem-hard soul-probesxa0. . . not justxa0the world's bestselling detective series, butxa0an imperishable literary legendxa0. . . he exposes secrets and crimes not by forensic wizardry, but by the melded powers of therapist, philosopher and confessor" ―xa0Times (London)"Strangely comfortingxa0. . . so many lovely bistros from the Paris of mid-20th C. The corpses are incidental, it's the food that counts." ―xa0Margaret Atwood"One of the greatest writers of the 20th centuryxa0. . . 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." ―xa0Financial Times"Grippingxa0. . .xa0richly rewardingxa0. . . You'll quickly find yourself obsessing about his life as you tackle each mystery in turn."-- Stig Abell ―xa0The Sunday Times (London) Georges Simenon (1903–1989)xa0was born on February 12th, 1903 in Liege, Belgium. At the age of nineteen, Simenon embarked to Paris to begin a career as a writer. xa0In 1923 he began publishing under various pseudonyms, and in 1929 began the Inspector Maigret series which helped elevate him to become a household name in continental Europe. xa0His prolific output of more than four hundred novels and the gripping, dark realism of his prose has cemented him as an inedlible fixture of twentieth century literature. xa0He died inxa01989 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Anthea Bell is the award-winning translator of numerous French and German works: from the Asterix comics to W. G. Sebald’s literary masterpiece Austerlitz .