num_pages: 170
description: Maigret's old colleague becomes an unexpected rival in book twenty-four of the new Penguin Maigret series. In everyone's eyes even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains even the kids just now who had turned to stare after they had passed him he was the intruder the undesirable. No worse he was fundamentally untrustworthy some stranger who had just turned up from who knew where to do who knew what. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret's Rival. 'Compelling remorseless brilliant' John Gray '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' Guardian 'A supreme writer ...unforgettable vividness' Independent Georges Simenon was born in Liege 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.
language: English
title: Inspector Cadaver
publisher: Penguin Books