Cécile Is Dead - (Inspector Maigret) by Georges Simenon (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Poor Cecile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult to look more like an old maid, to move less gracefully, in spite of the care she took to be friendly and pleasant. Those black dresses that she must make for herself from bad paper patterns, that ridiculous green hat.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b>"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --<i>The Guardian</i></b></b> <p/><b>A moving novel about the destructive power of greed starring the unrivaled Inspector Maigret</b> <p/><i>"Poor Cécile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult to look more like an old maid, to move less gracefully, in spite of the care she took to be friendly and pleasant. Those black dresses that she must make for herself from bad paper patterns, that ridiculous green hat!"</i> <p/>In the dreary suburbs of Paris, the merciless greed of a seemingly respectable woman is unearthed by her long suffering niece, and Maigret discovers the far-reaching consequences of their actions.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for Georges Simenon: </b> <p/>"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." --<i>The Guardian</i> <p/> "These Maigret books are as timeless as Paris itself." --<i>The Washington Post</i> <p/> "Maigret ranks with Holmes and Poirot in the pantheon of fictional detective immortals." --<i>People</i> <p/> "I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov." --William Faulkner <p/> "The greatest of all, the most genuine novelist we have had in literature." --André Gide <p/> "A supreme writer . . . Unforgettable vividness." --<i>The Independent</i> (London) <p/> "Superb . . . The most addictive of writers . . . A unique teller of tales." --<i>The Observer</i> (London) <p/> "Compelling, remorseless, brilliant." --John Gray <p/> "A truly wonderful writer . . . Marvelously readable--lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the world he creates." --Muriel Spark <p/> "A novelist who entered his fictional world as if he were a part of it."lle --Peter Ackroyd <p/> "Extraordinary masterpieces of the twentieth century." --John Banville<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Georges Simenon </b>(1903-1989) began work as a reporter for a local newspaper at the age of sixteen, and at nineteen he moved to Paris to embark on a career as a novelist. He went on to write seventy-five Maigret novels and twenty-eight Maigret short stories.
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