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Acute psychological insight and a distinctive, spare, atmospheric style Simenon ought to be spoken of in the same breath as Camus, Beckett and KafkaIndependent on SundayIn this classic novel, a womans fears for her safety lead Inspector Maigret to a Paris suburb where he uncovers appalling family secretsBarely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult to look more like an old maid, to move less gracefullythose black dressesthat ridiculous green hat!For six months the dowdy Ccile has been coming to the police station, desperate to convince them that someone has been breaking into her aunts 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’GuardianGem-hard soul-probes . . . not just the world’s bestselling detective series, but an imperishable literary legend Boyd Tonkin,The Times
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