Lock No. 1: Inspector Maigret - Softcover

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Georges Simenon (Author)
Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. An intrepid traveller with a profound interest in people, Simenon strove on and off the page to understand, rather than to judge, the human condition in all its shades. His novels include the Inspector Maigret series and a richly varied body of wider work united by its evocative power, its economy of means, and its penetrating psychological insight. He is among the most widely read writers in the global canon. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.

David Coward (Translator)
David Coward is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Leeds and has translated many books from French for Penguin Classics.

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Georges Simenon

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First published in French as L ecluse no. 1 in Paris-Soir, in instalments from 23 May to 16 June 1933

First published in book form by Fayard 1933

This translation first published in Penguin Books 2015

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Title Page

Copyright

About the Author

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

EXTRA: Chapter 1 from Maigret

Georges Simenon was born on 12 February 1903 in Liège, Belgium, and died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life. Between 1931 and 1972 he published seventy-five novels and twenty-eight short stories featuring Inspector Maigret.

Simenon always resisted identifying himself with his famous literary character, but acknowledged that they shared an important characteristic:

My motto, to the extent that I have one, has been noted often enough, and I ve always conformed to it. It s the one I ve given to old Maigret, who resembles me in certain points understand and judge not .

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I love reading Simenon. He makes me think of Chekhov

William Faulkner

A truly wonderful writer marvellously readable lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with the wo