Maigret And The Informer Av Georges Simenon

<p><b>''The father of contemporary European detective fiction'' Ann Cleeves</b><br><br><b>''</b><i>You see, I mainly work at night. I''ve ended up getting to know everybody. They''re used to me in Pigalle, I exchange a few words with this person or that person. I go into the bars and cabarets where they give me a quarter bottle of Vichy without waiting for me to order anything.''</i><br><br>An anonymous tip-off regarding the death of a restaurant owner sends Maigret into the world of Parisian nightlife, a notorious criminal gang and a man known as ''the Flea''.<br><br>This novel has been pubished in a previous translation as <i>Maigret and the Flea</i>.<br><br> ''One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century'' <i>Guardian</i></p>