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George Simenon's damaging story of misfortune, betrayal and the weakness of family ties, translated by Anthea Bell. Instead of the detail filling itself in and becoming clearer, it appeared to escape him. The facial skin of the person in the ill-fitting cover just misted up so that it hardly looked human. In theory this mental family portrait was sufficient, but now it was replaced by fleeting images that ought to have added up to 1 and the same man but which refused to get themselves into emphasis. The circumstances of Monsieur Gallet's loss of life all seem imitation: the name the deceased was exploring under and his presumed vocation, and more worryingly, his family's grief. Their haughtiness seems to hide ambiguous thoughts about the hapless man. In this particular haunting account, Maigret discovers the appalling fact and the true crime concealed behind the top of lies. Georges Simenon was born in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the writer of the Maigret catalogs, his prolific output of over 400 books and short experiences have made him a household name in continental Europe. He passed on in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he previously lived for the last mentioned part of his life.Anthea Bell is the award-winning translator of numerous French and German works: from the Asterix comics to W. G. Sebald's literary masterpiece Austerlitz.Audible will be producing all 75 Maigret headings. Another audiobook in the series is: The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien on 2nd January 2014.
