Cécile is Dead

Regular price €17.50
Quantity:
Ships in 10-20 days
Delivery/Collection within 10-20 working days
Shipping & Delivery
A01=Georges Simenon
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Georges Simenon
automatic-update
B06=Anthea Bell
best selling books
book club
book lover gifts
books for men
books for women
Category1=Fiction
Category=FBC
Category=FC
Category=FYT
classic books
classic books for adults
classic crime
classic novels
classics
comedy
COP=United Kingdom
cozy mystery books
crime books
crime fiction
crime thriller
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
detective
detective books
detective books paperback
detective series
detective series kindle books
detective stories
ebooks kindle books
eq_bestseller
eq_classics
eq_fiction
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
gifts for readers
historical crime fiction
historical fiction
historical mystery
Language_English
literary fiction
maigret
modern classics
murder books
murder mysteries
murder mystery
mystery books
noir
novels
PA=Available
paperback books
penguin classics
penguin modern classics crime & espionage
Price_€10 to €20
private eye
PS=Active
SN=Inspector Maigret
softlaunch
thrillers
timeless classics books
top holiday reads

Product details

  • ISBN 9780141397054
  • Weight: 149g
  • Dimensions: 130 x 199mm
  • Publication Date: 04 Jun 2015
  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Paperback
  • Language: English
Secure checkout Fast Shipping Easy returns

‘Acute psychological insight and a distinctive, spare, atmospheric style … Simenon ought to be spoken of in the same breath as Camus, Beckett and Kafka’ Independent on Sunday

In this classic novel, a woman’s fears for her safety lead Inspector Maigret to a Paris suburb where he uncovers appalling family secrets

‘Barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult to look more like an old maid, to move less gracefully…those black dresses…that ridiculous green hat!’

For six months the dowdy Cécile has been coming to the police station, desperate to convince them that someone has been breaking into her aunt’s apartment. No one takes her seriously – until Maigret unearths a story of merciless, deep-rooted greed.

'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century' Guardian

‘Gem-hard soul-probes . . . not just the world's bestselling detective series, but an imperishable literary legend’ Boyd Tonkin, The Times

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

More from this author