About the book:
< p>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:
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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. Th e abundance and success of his detective novels - including the Maigrets - partly eclipse the rest of his very rich work: one hundred and ninety-t hree novels \, one hundred and fifty-eight short stories\, several autobi ographical works and numerous articles and reports published under his own name\, as well as one hundred and seventy-six novels\, dozens of short stor ies\, gallant tales and articles published under twenty-seven pseudonyms. H e is the most widely read Belgian author in the world. The cumulative print runs of his books reach 550 million copies.
About the modera tor: Patrick Moran
Patrick Moran is Assistant Professor of M edieval Literature at UBC. His first book\, Lectures cycliques (Honoré Ch ampion\, 2014)\, deals with romantic cycles devoted to King Arthur. He rece ntly published a second book on contemporary fantasy ( The Canons of Fantas y \, Cambridge University Press\, 2019). He is also the author of two fanta sy novels\, both published in France by Mnémos editions ( La Crécerelle \, 2018\; Les Six Cauchemars \, 2020).
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Centre de la Francophonie de UBC
Alliance Française Vancouver