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Georges Simenon's haunting tale about the lengths to which people should go to escape from guilt, translated by Linda Coverdale as part of the new Penguin Maigret series.An initial ink drawing revealed a hanged man swinging from a gallows which perched a massive crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that experienced the same leitmotif of clinging.On the border of your forest: a man hanging out of every branch. A chapel steeple: under the weathercock, a body dangling from each arm of the combination... Below another sketch were written four lines from François Villon's Ballade of the Hanged Men.On a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly triggers a man's suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid happenings that drove the anxious man to capture himself.Georges Simenon was created in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the writer of the Maigret catalogs, his prolific result of over 400 novels and short reviews have made him a household name in continental European countries. He perished in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he previously lived for the last mentioned part of his life.Linda Coverdale is the awarding-winning translator of many French works and has been honoured with the name of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Characters on her behalf contribution to French literature.
