this novella appears here for the first time in book form, with the author's spare prose receiving an elegant translation. When wealthy merchant Francois Donge is poisoned with... Georges Simenon ...

John Lanchester writes that we don’t know exactly how many books Georges Simenon wrote. He published his first at 18—a semi-humorous novel partly “set in a chemist’s shop which specialised ...

A new iteration of one of the most beloved detectives in fiction is coming to PBS. The public broadcaster has ordered Maigret ...

Nothing moves quickly in the gloomy town of Saint-Louis in Alsace, but local police chief Georges Gorski has a mystery to ...

Like many of her books, a tragedy for a non-tragic age ... The Widow Couderc' by Georges Simenon (1942) Every year, Simenon would rage at the “idiots of Stockholm” who yet again had refused ...

The long-gestating TV adaptation of Georges Simenon’s Maigret has landed at PBS Masterpiece, with Belgravia: The Next Chapter ...

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Along with hundreds of letters of insult, there were cables of friendship and kindness from public figures, among them Cary Grant, Phil Baker, Georges Simenon, John Steinbeck, Ernest Hemingway and ...

The first contemporary TV adaptation of Georges Simenon’s beloved Jules Maigret detective novels is coming to PBS Masterpiece.The network announced its new series Maigret, along with the ...

By Lev Grossman What Are People Saying About the New Sally Rooney Book? “Intermezzo,” the Irish novelist’s fourth novel, is one of this fall’s most anticipated books. By The New York ...