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He could still see him: short, thin, dressed almost too correctly. There was nothing special about his face. So what was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully? … Little John had cold eyes … Four or five times in his life, he had met people with cold eyes, those eyes that can stare at you without establishing any human contact, without giving any sense of the universal human need to communicate with one’s fellow man.
Maigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice in book twenty-three of the new Penguin Maigret series. Mechanically, he had put his pince-nez down on the blotter and looked at it there with his large, short-sighted eyes. It is at that moment that the strange thing happens. One of the lenses, acting as a mirror, reflected the criss-cross, hatched ink marks which had dried on the blotter and he could just make out a couple of words.
Exiled from Paris, Maigret discovers some disturbing secrets in a sleepy coastal town.
Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess – in a suite that costs more than a thousand francs a day. At six in the morning, she’s strangled, not in her room, but in the basement locker room. In all likelihood, that’s where the crime was committed. What was the woman doing in the basement? Who could have lured her down there, and how? Especially at an hour when people of that kind are usually still fast asleep.
This is the inspirational tale of eight women who defied the confines of life in revolutionary Iran through the joy and power of literature.
‘The Riddle of the Sands’ is set during the long suspicious years leading up to the First World War and is a classic of spy fiction.
‘The best portrait of rural life in England’ Roger Deakin‘Exquisite’ John Updike‘The finest contemporary writer on the English countryside’ Observer Ronald Blythe’s perceptive and vivid evocation of the rural Suffolk he had known since childhood was acclaimed as an instant classic when it was published in 1969. It reverberates with the voices of the village…
In a cult classic that rivals ‘Pulp Fiction’ for its portrayal of violence in the postmodern society, Anthony Burgess’s novel is part horror farce, part social prophecy and part penetrating study of human choice between good and evil.
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