Maigret and the Spinster

"Maigret . . . ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals." -- People Cecile Pardon, a young woman who shares an apartment with her elderly aunt, makes repeated visits to the Qual des Orfevres, patiently but relentlessly complaining to Maigret of strange shifts in the position of her aunt's belongings during the night. After a while, the Inspector begins to believe that Cecile's imagination might be better than her memory. But when not one but two murders are committed, Maigret must sort through tawdry family history to get to the bottom of the crimes. "Simenon is . . . in a class by himself." -- The New Yorker Georges Simenon was born in Liege, Belgium, in 1903. As a young man he worked as a baker, journalist, and bookseller and published his first novel at seventeen. He went on to write more than two hundred novels, becoming one of the world's most prolific and bestselling authors. His books have sold more than 500 million copies and have been translated into fifty languages. Simenon died in 1989. Maigret is a registered trademark of the Estate of George SimenonSimenon, Georges is the author of 'Maigret and the Spinster' with ISBN 9780156028431 and ISBN 0156028433.