The Book Trunk

Georges Simenon

  • Crime Ration with Maigret

    I’m not the greatest fan of crime fiction – I don’t like descriptions of blood and gore – but I do like the Maigretbooks, and you don’t often see them around, so I was delighted to pick up three in… Continue reading

  • Machines and Murder Mysteries

    Another trip to Paris in the company of Chief Superintendent Maigret and an English honeymoon with Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane offered unexpected reading joys when I popped into the library to take some books back. Having tried (and… Continue reading

  • Rediscovering Maigret

    Notre Dame, which has nothing to with the story, but last timeI went  to Paris we ate lunch in a cafe near Shakespeae and Companyand this was the view, and it makes me happy to look at it. Well, here… Continue reading