The Man Who Wasn't Maigret - A Portrait Of Georges Simenon.

PATRICK MARNHAM

Publication: Bloomsbury, 1992, London

First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Simenon, author of the Maigret mysteries, was at one time the best-selling author in the world. He wrote 193 novels and his work was praised by Celine, T.S. Eliot, Somerset Maugham, Fellini, and Henry Miller. Andre Gide described him as "the greatest novelist we have had this century." This is a witty and thoroughly captivating biography of the man who died on Sept. 4, 1989.

Inventory Number: 9502