The Cellars Of The Majestic Av Georges Simenon

<p><b> ''Compelling, remorseless, brilliant'' John Gray </b><br><br><i>''Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and 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''<br><br></i>Below stairs at a glamorous hotel on the Champs-¿ys¿, 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 and unrequited love.<br><br>This novel has been published in a previous translation as <i>Maigret and the Hotel Majestic</i>.<br><br>''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'' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>''A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness'' <i>Independen