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  • Maigret Travels (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 51 - Inspector Maigret
    A dead billionaire and a suicidal countess set Maigret on a trail across the Europe of the ultrarich.The attempted suicide of a countess and the discovery that an English billionaire has been murdered in his bathtub at the same luxury hotel on the same night embroil Maigret in the intrigues of the ultrawealthy, as he follows a trail from Paris to the Riviera and Switzerland. Suddenly thrust into a ... Read more

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  • Maigret and the Dead Girl (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 45 - Inspector Maigret
    When the body of a nameless young woman is discovered, Maigret must investigate the hidden lives of Paris’s lost girls.When a young woman is found dead in a rainy square in Montmartre, all Maigret has to go on is a cheap blue evening gown and single shoe. Following the traces of the victim’s final days from dress shops to late-night cafés and lodging houses, Maigret slowly builds up an image of a ... Read more

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  • The Krull House (Romans Durs)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series series Romans Durs
    A malicious interloper in a quiet family is the catalyst to tragedy, in this unnervingly prophetic tale of small-town groupthink in 1930s Europe.Twenty-five-year-old Hans Krull, from Germany, is finally visiting the French Krulls: Uncle Cornelius, Aunt Maria, and cousins Anna, Joseph, and Liesbeth. It would be best, they tell Hans, if he concealed his nationality: it’s the 1930s and the family, ... Read more

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  • Maigret's Mistake (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 43 - Inspector Maigret
    When a young woman is murdered, her recent exit from grim poverty may be the key to cracking the case—but Maigret, to his disquiet, struggles to spot the right suspect.In an apartment in the exclusive Étoile district of Paris, the body of twenty-six-year-old Louise Filon is found. She’s been shot in the head at close range. Maigret, arriving on the disturbing scene, questions her housekeeper and ... Read more

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  • The Cellars of the Majestic (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 21 - Inspector Maigret
    “Simenon could produce endless variations, as similar and as different as Shakespeare’s sonnets or Monet’s haystacks.” —Adam KirschWhen the glamorous wife of an American industrialist is murdered at a luxury Paris hotel, her past life as a nightclub dancer is the key to finding the killer. As Maigret traces surprising connections between the dead woman and the hotel’s belowstairs staff, a story of ... Read more

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  • Maigret and the Headless Corpse (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 47 - Inspector Maigret
    When a man’s dismembered, headless corpse is found in a Paris canal, Maigret dives into a murky, depressing world of domestic intrigue to find the victim, the killer, the motive, and, perhaps, the missing head.The discovery of a dismembered corpse in a Paris canal sets Maigret on the trail of a bistro owner who may or may not have gone to the countryside, and his inscrutable, unhappy alcoholic ... Read more

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  • The Man from London (Romans Durs)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series series Romans Durs
    A train signalman, who literally watches the world through glass, is jolted from passivity in this riveting tragedy of male alienation.From his elevated glass cabin at the ferry terminal, train signalman Louis Maloin can survey the whole of Dieppe. For thirty years of working the night shift, he hasn’t varied his routine. He smokes his pipe, drinks his coffee and brandy, and watches people. Then, ... Read more

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  • The Snow Was Dirty (Romans Durs)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series series Romans Durs
    “Simenon has concentrated noir into a darkness as solid and heavy as the interior of a dwarf star.” —William T. VollmannWhat happens to everyday morality in a time of political deceit and betrayal? In an unnamed city under military occupation, nineteen-year-old Frank—a low-level thug and thief—should be content enough with his warm home and full stomach, even against the dreariness of an endless ... Read more

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  • The Strangers in the House (Romans Durs)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series series Romans Durs
    “A writer who, more than any other crime novelist, combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal.” —P. D. JamesCaught in a spiral of bitter seclusion and drinking since his wife abandoned him and their newborn child eighteen years ago, Hector Loursat, once a respected lawyer, now holes up, unwashed and drunk on Burgundy, in his once grand but increasingly decrepit mansion. He barely ... Read more

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  • The AIDS Plays Project

    Queer Plays from Trailblazing Writers Lost to HIV/AIDS

    by Charles Ludlam, James Kirkwood, Harry Kondoleon, Robert Chesley, Colm O Clubhan, Alan Bowne, George Whitmore ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    This collection brings together scripts, essays, biographies, interviews and photographs to celebrate seven queer playwrights lost to HIV/AIDS: Charles Ludlam, James Kirkwood Jr., George Whitmore, Harry Kondoleon, Alan Bowne, Colm Ó Clúbhán and Robert Chesley.From a drag-infused riff on La Traviata in nineteenth-century Paris to a subversive comedy about a bisexual ghost haunting rural ... Read more

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  • Maigret and the Lazy Burglar (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 57 - Inspector Maigret
    As Paris is terrorized by a stickup gang, the murder of a solitary, small-time burglar is of little interest to anyone—except Maigret, who unofficially investigates the killing of an incorrigible thief who was, for the inspector, something like a friend.Between the stickup gang terrorizing Paris and the ever-increasing red tape of modern police work, Maigret has his hands full. Still, when a ... Read more

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  • Madame Maigret's Friend (Inspector Maigret)

    by Georges Simenon ...
    Translated by Howard Curtis ...
    Series Book 34 - Inspector Maigret
    Maigret must wade through a media frenzy when news of a body found in a stove spreads across Paris. Who is the corpse, and how is the case connected to Madame Maigret?A gruesome mystery has the whole of Paris agog: who is “the corpse in the stove”? The stove’s owner, a reclusive Belgian bookbinder detained in the Santé prison, isn’t saying. His ambitious young lawyer, meanwhile, keeps giving ... Read more

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