Cécile Is Dead

Authors: Simenon, Georges
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC030000, FIC050000, FIC022000
ISBN: 9780698409200, Related ISBNs: 0141397055, 0698409205, 9780141397054, 9780698409200
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 192,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis: “One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories.” —The Guardian

A moving novel about the destructive power of greed starring the unrivaled Inspector Maigret

“Poor Cécile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult to look more like an old maid, to move less gracefully, in spite of the care she took to be friendly and pleasant. Those black dresses that she must make for herself from bad paper patterns, that ridiculous green hat!”

In the dreary suburbs of Paris, the merciless greed of a seemingly respectable woman is unearthed by her long suffering niece, and Maigret discovers the far-reaching consequences of their actions.
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