The Hanged Man Of Saint-Pholien Av Georges Simenon

<p><b>''Compelling, remorseless, brilliant''</b> <b>John Gray </b> <i><br><br>A first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that had the same leitmotif of hanging.</i><i><br>On the edge of a forest: a man hanging from every branch.</i><i><br>A church steeple: beneath the weathercock, a human body dangling from each arm of the cross. . . Below another sketch were written four lines from </i><i>François </i><i>Villon''s Ballade of the Hanged Men.</i><br><br>On a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly causes a man''s suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself.<br><br>This novel has been published in previous translations as <i>Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets</i> and <i>The Crime of Inspector Maigret</i>.<br><br>''One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century'' <i>Guardian</i></p>