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Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series.

'That shoeless foot...

'You're a good soul, inspector, and when you're up against the second-rate criminals you get here in Paris, you're a crack...

'What else did they have to do with their days? They ambled around casually. From time to time, they paused, not because they...

'Maigret looked at him in some confusion, wondering if he waas dealing with a skilful actor or, on the contrary, with a sickly...

Standing here at the window in the middle of the morning, vaguely observing the comings and goings in the street, he had a...

For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office where he learns that he has...

'He opened the door for her and watched her walk away down the huge corridor, then hesitate at the top of the stairs. Heads...

'Maigret had never been comfortable in certain circles, among the wealthy bourgeoisie where he felt clumsy and awkward ... Built...

When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being badly beaten, Maigret must delve into the man's personal circumstances to...

'He had seldom been so perplexed by human beings. Would a psychiatrist, a teacher or a novelist...have been better placed to...

Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler, Felix Nahour, who has been found shot dead by his chambermaid. Maigret is...

'Once alone in his office, he went over and opened the window as if being in charge of this case made him gasp for a breath of...

'Leaning on the banisters, Madame Maigret watched her husband going heavily downstairs . . . what the newspapers didn't know was...

'Why all of a sudden did this shock him? He was annoyed with himself for being shocked. He felt as if he had been sucked into the...

Hazel has just moved into a trailer park of senior citizens, with her father and Diane - his sex doll companion. Life with...

'She wanted to die, and she wanted to live in Paris.'

This is the story of Emma, trapped in a disappointing marriage with a...

'This book is a little bit about me and a little bit about you.'
Having an organisation business, you might think I have...

Handsome would-be poet Lucien Chardon is poor and naive, but highly ambitious. Failing to make his name in his dull provincial...

A man wakes in a cell.
He doesn't know who he is or how long he has been here.
He doesn't even know his name.
All he knows is...

How can you solve a crime if you can't remember the clues?
There is an explosion at a military ball. The casualties are rushed...

First published in 1869, Lorna Doone is the story of John Ridd, a farmer who finds love amid the religious and social turmoil of...

Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's...

In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years...

A masterly evocation of the state and psychology of imprisonment, Little Dorrit is one of the supreme works of Dickens's...

First published in 2003, Literary Life became an instant classic as readers (and writers) delighted in watching Posy Simmonds...

Lifting the Veil is a bold and irreverent collection of writing from India's most controversial feminist writer. These stories...

If Nick Stone wasn't so desperate for his American citizenship, he probably wouldn't have agreed to do this one last job with the...

Agee James, Evans...

In the summer of 1936, Agee and Evans set out on assignement for Fortune magazine to explore the daily lives of sharecroppers in...

State Street Chicago, 1999. One summer that changes everything.

An unlikely trio: Felicia 'Fe Fe' Stevens, daughter of...

Nick Stone - deniable operator for British Intelligence - has been assigned to carry out an officially-sanctioned assassination....