It’s not the number of books Simenon wrote that is impressive. It’s their consistent quality. The writing method was as extraordinary as the books. A Maigret novel came on Simenon like an illness: he ...

Investigating a Belgian emigre bookbinder accused of murder, Chief Inspector Maigret gets help from Mme. Maigret, who accidentally befriends a woman and little boy connected to the case. According to ...

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Georges Simenon was a phenomenon, a hack who became a great writer. The reverse is more common. We can all think of authors who started with high literary ambitions and ended by writing commercially ...

For those who fear that Oprah may be right — that there just aren’t enough good books to go around these days — there is always Simenon. No, not the late mystery writer Georges Simenon, creator of the ...

New York Review Books: 560 pp., $17.95 paper In 1941, a doctor told Georges Simenon that he had two years to live. The famously prolific author eventually learned the diagnosis was wrong (he died in ...

There have been few writers as prolifically désengagé as Georges Simenon, the author of nearly two hundred absorbing, intensely readable thrillers and detective novels under his own name and many ...

The Belgian author’s genius comes to the fore in a dark domestic drama The more one reads of Georges Simenon, the stranger the writer and his writings become. His novels, most of them composed in a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There have been few writers as prolifically désengagé as Georges Simenon, the author of nearly two hundred absorbing, intensely ...