Maigret and the spinster

Georges Simenon

Original title: Cécile est morte

Also published as: Cécile Is Dead

Translated by Anthea Bell first published 1977 Penguin Books, 2015 paperback 192 pages

Sämtliche Maigret-Romane in 75 Bänden / Georges Simenon -- Bd. — book 22

For six months Cécile had been pestering Chief Superintendent Maigret, pitching camp in the waiting room, endlessly patient, to report to him that the furniture in the apartment she shared with her aunt had mysteriously shifted position during the night. So much trouble for so self-effacing a woman to create! Clearly she was a spinster, and this was just the sort of fanciful notion spinsters cling to, to plague chief...

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This book in English

Eileen Ellenbogen 1 printing we hold · 1977 · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Anthea Bell 1 printing we hold · 2015 · Penguin Books

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Editions we hold

Cécile Is Dead paperback · 2015 · Penguin Books · 192 pages · 9780141397054
Cécile Is Dead edition · 2015 · Penguin Books, Limited · 9780141980010
Maigret verliert eine Verehrerin edition · 2008 · Diogenes · 202 pages · 9783257238228
Maigret and the Spinster edition · 2003 · Harvest Books · 168 pages · 9780156028431
Cecile Ha Muerto paperback · 2002 · Tusquets · 150 pages · 9788472239593
Maigret and the Spinster edition · 1996 · Harvest Books · 168 pages · 9780156551298
Maigret and the spinster edition · 1977 · H. Hamilton · 155 pages
Maigret and the spinster hardcover · 1977 · Harcourt Brace Jovanovich · 164 pages

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