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Biographical note
Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. He is best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret novels and his prolific output of over 400 novels and short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.<p><b>One of the greatest writers of the 20th century</b> . . . no other writer can set up a scene as sharply and with such economy as Simenon does . . . the conjuring of a world, a place, a time, a set of characters - above all, an atmosphere.</p>
- John Banville, Financial Times
<p><b>Simenon's supreme virtue as a novelist, to burrow beneath the surface of his characters' behaviour; to empathise</b> . . . it is this unfailing humanity that makes the Maigret books truly worth reading</p>
- Graema Macrae Burnet, Guardian
<p><b>Gem-hard soul-probes</b> . . . not just <b>the world's bestselling detective series</b>, but <b>an imperishable literary legend</b> . . . he exposes secrets and crimes not by forensic wizardry, but by the melded powers of therapist, philosopher and confessor</p>
- Boyd Tonkin, Times
<b>Compelling...tense...readers will surely race through each story with relish</b>
- Martin Bentham, Evening Standard