Description
Georges Simenon's characteristically spare, atmospheric Maigret mystery—in which the legendary Paris detective investigates a case that begins at sea and ends in a harbor bar among the difficult emotions of sailors, exile, and the particular loneliness of lives lived on the water—demonstrates his incomparable gift for the crime novel as a form of social and psychological revelation. Written with his absolute economy and his unwavering focus on the human truth beneath the mystery, this is Maigret at his most characteristically atmospheric and most quietly devastating. Essential reading.
