Georges Simenon

Sep 4, 2023 | fivebooks.com | Georges Simenon |Taylor Jenkins Reid |Kai Bird |Martin J. Sherwin

Maigret and the Dead Girl Now out in a movie with Gerard Depardieu as the French police inspector, Maigret and the Dead Girl is a good place to start with this classic European detective series by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon (1903-1989). Simenon wrote around 75 Maigret novels, so the quality tends to vary.

Jun 9, 2023 | winstonsdad.wordpress.com | Georges Simenon

The Boarding House by Piotr PazińskiPolish fictionOriginal tilte PensjonatTranslator – Tusia DąbrowskaSource – Personal copyI’m going to start to work through some of the many Dalkey Archive books I have brought over the last few years, just a drop in the ocean of what they have published. According to Chad Post, there is well over 1000 title that has come out over the many years the press has run. He is currently putting together that list, and in the meantime, I will cover what I. have.

Jun 8, 2023 | winstonsdad.wordpress.com | Georges Simenon

The Widow Courdec by Georges SimenonBelgian fictionOriginal title -La Veuve CoudercTranslator – Siãn ReynoldsSource – Review copyI had planned to review this last month, but with reviewing strangers in the house for the Club year. So  I held this back. This was written in the mid-war years by Simenon, taken on an existentialist novel it happened to have come out the same year as Camus’s novel The Outsider, which has always overshadowed this work from Simenon.