The Carter Of 'La Providence' Av Georges Simenon

<p><b>''Compelling, remorseless, brilliant'' John Gray </b><br><br><i>What was the woman doing here? </i><i>In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten in the evening.<br></i><i>But how? And why? And no one had heard a thing! She had not screamed. The two carters had not woken up.<br><br></i>Inspector Maigret is standing in the pouring rain by a canal. A well-dressed woman, Mary Lampson, has been found strangled in a stable nearby. Why did her glamorous, hedonistic life come to such a brutal end here? Surely her taciturn husband Sir Walter knows - or maybe the answers lie with the crew of the barge <i>La Providence</i>.<br><br>This novel has been published in previous translations as <i>Lock 14</i> and <i>Maigret Meets a Milord</i>.<br><br>''One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century'' <i>Guardian</i></p>