Join a book club to discuss “Maigret tend un piège” by Georges Simenon!
About the book:
For six months, five women have been killed in Montmartre. Will Maigret, the famous inspector with a pipe, he succeed in discovering the murderer? Learn more.
Read the book in advance:
It is best to read the book before the session, so that you can discuss it with the other participants and with the facilitator. You can get the book from:
- Renaud Bray (purchase): Paper version
- Culturethèque (loan): Digital version
About the author: Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon is a French-speaking Belgian writer born in Liège, Belgium on February 13, 1903 1 and died in Lausanne, Switzerland on September 4, 1989. The abundance and success of his detective novels – including the Maigrets – partly eclipse the rest of his very rich work: one hundred and ninety-three novels , one hundred and fifty-eight short stories, several autobiographical works and numerous articles and reports published under his own name, as well as one hundred and seventy-six novels, dozens of short stories, gallant tales and articles published under twenty-seven pseudonyms. He is the most widely read Belgian author in the world. The cumulative print runs of his books reach 550 million copies.
About the moderator: Patrick Moran
Patrick Moran is Assistant Professor of Medieval Literature at UBC. His first book, Lectures cycliques (Honoré Champion, 2014), deals with romantic cycles devoted to King Arthur. He recently published a second book on contemporary fantasy ( The Canons of Fantasy , Cambridge University Press, 2019). He is also the author of two fantasy novels, both published in France by Mnémos editions ( La Crécerelle , 2018; Les Six Cauchemars , 2020).
Organized by:
Centre de la Francophonie de UBC
Alliance Française Vancouver
