Maigret Takes a Room: Inspector Maigret #37

Georges Simenon

Nov 2016 · Penguin UK

About this ebook

'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray

'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 ... He wondered now if his exultation wasn't down to the fact that she was playing a part, not just to deceive him, not just to hide something from him, but for the pleasure of acting a part'

When one of his best inspectors is shot, Maigret decides to book himself into Mademoiselle Clément's well-kept Paris boarding house nearby in order to find the culprit.

'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century' Guardian

'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' Independent

Ratings and reviews

Even by Maigret standards, this one is short, and it takes ages to get going. It's oddly confusing early on, and like Maigret himself seems to struggle to get its teeth into the case. It has its pleasures, and one of them is seeing Maigret out of his usual setting, but for me it wasn't quite worth the money.

About the author

Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. He is best know in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.