2 The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien, translated by Linda Coverdale and published by Penguin Books, features Simenon’s Inspector Maigret.  A Parisian detective who starred in an impressive seventy-five novels & twenty-eight short stories. Of the three Simenon books I’m reviewing The Hanged Man… is the most conventional – being a fairly straight forward detective novel.  In it the off-duty Inspector Maigret spots a suspicious looking man at the train station … Continue reading The Genius of Georges Simenon – continued

Title:  The Strangers In the House Translator:  Geoffrey Sainsbury, with revisions by David Watson & others Publisher:  New York Review Books, New York ISBN:  978 1 59017 194 3   Title:  The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien Translator:  Linda Coverdale Publisher:  Penguin Books, London ISBN:  978 0 141 39345 2   Title:  The President Translator:  Daphne Woodward Publisher:  Melville House Publishing, Brooklyn ISBN:  978 1 935554 … Continue reading The Genius of Georges Simenon – Part 1