The Saint-Fiacre Affair (Maigret)

Simenon, Georges

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9781522634577: The Saint-Fiacre Affair (Maigret)

ISBN 10: 1522634576 ISBN 13: 9781522634577

Publisher: Audible Studios on Brilliance audio, 2017

Maigret savoured the sensations of his youth again: the cold, stinging eyes, frozen fingertips, an aftertaste of coffee. Then, stepping inside the church, a blast of heat, soft light; the smell of candles and incense.

The last time Maigret went home to the village of his birth was for his father's funeral. Now an anonymous note predicting a crime during "All Souls" Day mass draws him back there, where troubling memories resurface and hidden vices are revealed.

Georges Simenon was born in Li�ge, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, 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.

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One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.

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'I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov.'

William Faulkner
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'Superb... The most addictive of writers... A unique teller of tales'
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Compelling, remorseless, brilliant.

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'A truly wonderful writer... marvellously readable - lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the workd he creates'

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'A novelist who entered his fictional world as it he were a part of it'

Peter Ackroyd
'Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century'

John Banville

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'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century...Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.'

-- The Guardian
'I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov.'

-- William Faulkner
'The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in literature'

-- Andr' Gide
'A supreme writer...unforgettable vividness'

-- The Independent
'Superb... The most addictive of writers... A unique teller of tales'
-- The Observer
'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant.'

-- John Gray
'A truly wonderful writer... marvellously readable - lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the workd he creates'

-- Muriel Spark
'A novelist who entered his fictional world as it he were a part of it'

-- Peter Ackroyd
'Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century'

-- John Banville

About the Author:

Georges Simenon was born in Li�ge, 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.

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