Saturday at Zenda. Saturday of contemporary classics. Saturday, in this case, devoted to Maigret and the Lazy Thief, by Georges Simenon, a novel reissued by the publishing house DeBolsillo. This work belongs to the series of books that the Belgian author Georges Simenon (Liège, 1903 – Lausanne, 1989) dedicated to the investigations of Commissioner Jules Maigret, one of the central figures in 20th-century crime fiction.
In the publisher’s own words: “The inspector Maigret is supposed to be working to stop the bands of thieves that terrorize Paris; however a body appears in the Bois de Boulogne. It turns out to be a thief he had known for several years and for whom he cannot help feeling a certain fondness. Defying his superiors’ orders, the commissioner decides to investigate who killed his former acquaintance, even if this leads him into terrible danger.”
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Author: Georges Simenon. Title: Maigret and the Lazy Thief. Publisher: DeBolsillo. Available from: Todostuslibros.