Maigret and the Headless Corpse

By Georges Simenon

Book Overview

"One of Simenon's masterpieces." --Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker "A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason." --John Le Carr A man's dismembered body is found in... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156551446
• ISBN13: 9780156551441
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Mariner Books
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 0.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

The 'perfect' Maigret

If you're curious about Simenon's unique style and his great character Maigret, this is the one to start with. More than any of the other 50 Maigrets I've read, this one epitomizes the qualities that make these books so remarkable; Maigret solves crimes, like this one, not so much by the regular procedure of detection, but by trying to understand the circumstances of the crime and the lives of the people involved. In this book, the crime becomes almost irrelevant compared to the study of character and human unhappiness.