The Cellars Of The Majestic

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The dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris is brought to life in this new translation, book twenty-one in the new Penguin Maigret series. ` Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husb&, her son, a nurse & a governess.. . In a suite that costs more than a thousand francs a day.. . At six in the morning, she`s strangled, not in her room, but in the basement locker room` Below stairs at a glamorous hotel on the Champs-Elysees, the workers` lives are worlds away from the luxury enjoyed by the wealthy guests. When their worlds meet, Maigret discovers a tragic story of ambition, blackmail & unrequited love. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret & the Hotel Majestic. ` Compelling, remorseless, brilliant` John Gray ` One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.. . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories` Guardian `A supreme writer.. .unforgettable vividness` Independent Georges Simenon was born in Liege, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the author of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels & short stories have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerl&, where he had lived for the latter part of his life.