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