Buy Books, Subscriptions and Tickets

Author: Simenon, Georges, Whiteside, Shaun

Classic crime

Published on 25 May 2023 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Little Clothbound Classics’ series.

Hardback | 208 pages
167 x 120 x 20 | 220g

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world’s greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-SmithCelebrating the range and diversity of Penguin Classics, they take us from snowy Japan to springtime Vienna, from haunted New England to a sun-drenched Mediterranean island, and from a game of chess on the ocean to a love story on the moon. Beautifully designed and printed, these collectible editions are bound in colourful, tactile cloth and stamped with foil.

Georges Simenon’s brilliant pipe-smoking detective, Jules Maigret, is one of the most beloved literary creations of the twentieth century. In this adventure, an officer from Scotland Yard is studying Maigret’s methods when a call from an island off the Côte d’Azure sends the two men off to an isolated community to investigate its eccentric inhabitants.