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Night at the crossroads

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Maigret has been interrogating Carl Andersen for seventeen hours without a confession. He's either innocent or a very good liar. So why was the body of a diamond merchant found at his isolated mansion? Why is his sister always shut away in her room? And why does everyone at Three Widows Crossroads h...

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Main Author: Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989
Other Authors: Coverdale, Linda
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
French
Published: London : Penguin Books, 2014.
Series:Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989. Inspector Maigret.
Penguin classics.
Subjects:
Maigret, Jules > (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Police > France > Paris > Fiction.
Detective and mystery stories.
Detective and mystery fiction.
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Summary:Maigret has been interrogating Carl Andersen for seventeen hours without a confession. He's either innocent or a very good liar. So why was the body of a diamond merchant found at his isolated mansion? Why is his sister always shut away in her room? And why does everyone at Three Widows Crossroads have something to hide?
Physical Description:150 pages ; 20 cm.
ISBN:9780141393483
0141393483
Author Notes:The prolific Belgian-born writer Georges Simenon produced hundreds of fictional works under his own name and 17 pseudonyms, in addition to more than 70 books about Inspector Maigret, long "the favorite sleuth of highbrow detective-story readers" (SR). More than 50 "Simenons" have been made into films. In addition to his mystery stories, he wrote what he called "hard" books, the serious psychological novels numbering well over 100. The autobiographical Pedigree, set in his native town of Liege, is perhaps his finest work. The publication of Simenon's intimate memoirs also attracted considerable attention. Simenon himself once said that he would never write a "great novel." Yet Gide called him "a great novelist, perhaps the greatest and truest novelist we have in French literature today," and Thornton Wilder (see Vol. 1) found that Simenon's narrative gift extends "to the tips of his fingers." The following are some of Simenon's novels, exclusive of the Maigret detective stories, that are in print.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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