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Georges Simenon was, during his lifetime, the bestselling writer alive: his sales were over 500 million in 55 languages. He created Chief Inspector Maigret, one of the most-loved and sanest characters in modern fiction, but was himself an alcoholic, a fantasist, a man possessed by the demon of sexual jealousy, a crime writer whose own life was haunted by the possibility of crime. His stated ideal was family life, but he conducted a quarrel with his widowed mother that lasted for 50 years, and his own family life ended in catastrophe with the suicide of his daughter. He married twice and seduced hundreds of women. This book examines Simenon's fascination with crime, and traces the relationship between his life and his tormented fiction.

Print length 346 pages
Language English
Publication date 1993
ISBN-0140139273