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Es ist ein heißer Augustnachmittag. Die Brüder Donge sitzen mit ihren Familien im Garten ihres Landhauses. Plötzlich springt François Donge auf und stürzt ins Badezimmer. Als Chemiker hat er sofort begriffen, dass seine zarte Frau Bébé, die alle wie ein Kind behandeln, mehr als nur Zucker in seinen Kaffee getan hat. Ein gescheiterter Mordversuch - schlimmer kann eine Ehe nicht enden. Im Krankenhaus muss sich der Schürzenjäger François damit auseinandersetzen, wie es so weit kommen konnte.

Mitten in der Nacht wendet Minister Auguste Point sich in seiner Not an Kommissar Maigret. Ein brisantes Gutachten, das eine Regierungskrise auslösen könnte, ist aus seinem Büro verschwunden. Maigret ist der Minister auf Anhieb sympathisch, aber kann er ihm wirklich trauen? Hat Point das heikle Gutachten vielleicht selbst unterschlagen? Dann verschwindet der Minister, der von der Presse der Korruption bezichtigt wird, plötzlich spurlos. Maigret versucht ihn zu finden und gerät immer tiefer in die Machtspiele der Pariser Politik.

Eddie Rico gehört wie seine Brüder Gino und Tony zur Cosa Nostra. Er verwaltet für "die Organisation" den zahmen Sektor der Westküste Floridas, hat sich Respekt und Ansehen erworben, hat eine Familie und ein eigenes Haus. Ein Brief der Mutter bringt Unruhe in sein wohlgeordnetes Leben: Tony ist verschwunden und er wird beauftragt, seinen Bruder zu finden, der irgendwo in Amerika untergetaucht ist. Eddie steht vor einem Dilemma: Entweder liefert er seinen Bruder dem Tod aus oder er setzt seine eigene Existenz aufs Spiel.

A visit from the tall, thin woman he arrested many years ago - now married to a hapless burglar - leads Maigret on a tortuous investigation in which he struggles with a formidable suspect. This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret and the Burglar's Wife.'

Kommissar Maigret ohne Pfeife? Undenkbar! Das Symbol seiner Gelassenheit, die seinen kriminalistischen Scharfsinn unterstützt, ist verschwunden, seit Madame Leroy und ihr Sohn Joseph in seinem Büro am Quai des Orfèvres einen Einbruch gemeldet haben. Der Friseurlehrling hat die Pfeife entwendet, dessen ist sich Maigret sicher. Tags darauf wird auch Joseph vermisst. Der Kommissar und sein Assistent Lucas machen sich auf die Suche nach ihm.

Walter Higgins glaubt, "es geschafft" zu haben: In den Slums von New York geboren, hat er es zum Leiter eines Supermarktes gebracht, ist glücklich verheiratet und hat zwei Kinder. Nur eines fehlt ihm als letzte Anerkennung: Er möchte in den Country-Club der Kleinstadt aufgenommen werden. Doch irgendjemand lehnt ihn - schon zum zweiten Mal - ab und wirft eine schwarze Kugel in die Wahlurne.

A young cabaret dancer in a black silk dress leads Maigret into a seamy world of nightclubs, drug addiction and exploitation on the streets of Montmartre. 'He opened the door for her and watched her walk away down the huge corridor, then hesitate at the top of the stairs. Heads turned as she passed. You sensed she came from a different world, the world of the night, and there was something almost indecent about her in the harsh light of a winter's day.'

When one of his best inspectors is shot, Maigret decides to book himself into Mademoiselle Clément's well-kept Paris boardinghouse nearby in order to find the culprit. 'What he thought he had discovered, in place of the joyful candour that she usually displayed, was an irony which was neither less cheerful nor less childish, but which troubled him....'

Maigret sets the record straight and tells the story of his own life, giving a rare glimpse into the mind of the great inspector - and the writer who would immortalise him. 'I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even more self-confidence, if possible, than before, but nevertheless with a touch of anxiety in his eyes.... He trumpeted these last words as if they were a sensational discovery. Making it seem truer than life, that's the crux of it. Well, I've made you truer than life.'

Madame Maigret takes the lead in a disturbing investigation in this new translation, book 34 of the Maigret series. Inspector Maigret's wife turns sleuth after a strange encounter in a Paris square leads her on the trail of a woman in a white hat and towards a grisly tale of deception and greed.

Maigret uncovers some troubling family politics in this new translation, book 33 of the Maigret series. When a charming elderly widow appeals to him for help, Inspector Maigret travels to a seaside village in Normandy - uncovering a lost fortune and some poisonous family politics.

A new translation of Simenon's gripping novel about lives transformed by deceit and the destructive power of lust. It was all real: himself, the room, Andrée still lying on the ravaged bed. For Tony and Andrée, there are no rules when they meet in the blue room at the Hôtel des Voyageurs. Their adulterous affair is intoxicating, passionate - and dangerous. Soon it turns into a nightmare from which there can be no escape.

Nineteen-year-old Frank - thug, thief, son of a brothel owner - gets by surprisingly well despite living in a city under military occupation, but a warm house and a full stomach are not enough to make him feel truly alive in such a climate of deceit and betrayal. During a bleak, unending winter, he embarks on a string of violent and sordid crimes that set him on a path from which he can never return. Georges Simenon's matchless novel is a brutal, compelling portrayal of a world without pity; a devastating journey through a psychological no-man's land.

The first English publication of Georges Simenon's compelling novel about summer escape and elusive obsessions. 'The island itself. Its throbbing heat as if in a bell jar under the sun, the scorpion in his son's bed, the deafening sound of cicadas.' During his first holiday on the island of Porquerolles, Dr Mahé caught a glimpse of something irresistible. As the memory continues to haunt him, he falls prey to a delusion that may offer an escape from his conventional existence - or may destroy him.

A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces. 'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion...disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers.' Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man. Then he discovers that his boss has bankrupted the shipping firm he works for - and something snaps.

Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', are one of the most candid self-portraits of a writer ever put to paper. Here, as the celebrated author ruthlessly examines his tortuous writing methods, his past, his fame, his intimate relationships and his fears of ageing, the result is an unsparing, often painfully revealing insight into a man trying both to find and to escape himself.

'I had begun, God knows why, tearing a corner off of everyday truth, begun seeing myself in another kind of mirror, and now the whole of the old, more or less comfortable truth was falling to pieces.' Confident and successful, New York advertising executive Ray Sanders takes what he wants from life. When he goes missing in a snowstorm in Connecticut one evening, his closest friend begins to reassess his loyalties, gambling with Ray's fate and his own future.

Kuschelige Weihnachten? Von wegen! Mörder und Halunken machen keine Weihnachtsferien - und so haben auch Ermittler keine besinnlichen und erholsamen Feiertage. Sherlock Holmes spürt den Dieb eines Diamanten auf, der in einer Weihnachtsgans gefunden wurde, während Miss Marple vor dem prasselnden Kaminfeuer von einem Mord erzählt. Bei einem traditionellen Weihnachtsessen verschwindet ein Halsband.

Maigret grapples with the American justice system on a trip to Arizona in this new translation, novel 32 of the new Penguin Maigret series. The FBI man was convinced, in short, that Maigret was a big shot in his own country but that here, in the United States, he was incapable of figuring out anything.... Well, Maigret happened to believe that men and their passions are the same everywhere.

'Past acquaintances resurface in the sun-drenched south of France in this new translation.' The palm trees around the railway station were motionless, fixed in a Saharan sun.... It really felt as if they were stepping into another world, and they were embarrassed to be entering it in the dark clothes that had been suited to the rainy streets of Paris the evening before.