Man Who Wasn't Maigret A Portrait of Georges Simenon

Name: Man Who Wasn't Maigret A Portrait of Georges Simenon
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ISBN: 9780156000598

ISBN-10: 0156000598

ISBN-13: 9780156000598

Edition: N/A

Authors: Patrick Marnham

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Winner of the Marsh Prize for biography and an Edgar Award finalist. "I doubt if there will be a better, or a better written, portrait of Simenon for a long time."--Julian Barnes

Book details

List price: $25.95
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Publication date: 4/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 404
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.584



Illustrations


Author's Note


Chronology


Prelude - Lausanne 1989: Death of a man with no profession



The Scene of the Crime



Liege 1903: Preliminaries to the death of a man with no profession



The death of a childhood



The boy columnist



The death of a journalist



The death of Kleine



The Idiot Genius



'Manger et faire l'amour'



A certain idea of France



Death of a playboy



The commissioner for refugees



Muddle, fear, treachery and deceit



A Sickness and a Curse



The trap shuts



Shadow Rock Farm



The act of hate



The man in the glass cage


Appendix


Bibliography


Notes on sources


Selected works of Georges Simenon


The Maigret series


The novels


Autobiographical writings


Additional fiction and non-fiction sources


Selected secondary sources


Index