The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien
Inspector Maigret

The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien

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Publisher Description

“A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason.” —John Le Carré

Inspector Maigret finds himself tangled up in a dreadful death, in Georges Simenon’s haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt


While in Brussels on police business, Inspector Jules Maigret witnesses a strange act: a scruffy-looking man counts out a large amount of currency and mails it to a Paris address. His instincts tell him there is more to this moment than meets the eye, and following an impulse, Maigret boards the man’s train, following him to Germany via Amsterdam. But in the course of his investigation, something goes horribly awry, and the man ends up dead.

Maigret is devastated by the inadvertent role he played, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to the edge. In The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien, Georges Simenon examines the terrible weight guilt can place on a man’s conscience and the tragedies that can result when that weight gets to be too heavy to bear.

GENRE
Mysteries & Thrillers
RELEASED
2014
April 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
144
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Publishing Group
SELLER
PENGUIN GROUP USA, INC.
SIZE
1.3
MB

Customer Reviews

midlotam ,

Incomparable

There’s no one like Simenon’s Maigret. The suspense builds inexorably in this unique tale, the end unknowable until the penultimate moment. A cracking good read from a master of noir.

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