Georges Simenon is the master of the detective genre, the author of more than two hundred novels and short stories translated into 57 languages in 39 countries. He created the image of the inimitable commissar. Megre – a talented detective and a noble man, who was erected by a monument during the life of the author – and dedicated 76 novels and 26 stories to him. In the series “Detective in your pocket” – the best works about Megre!
As soon as the “Providence” barge left Dizi, as in the stable at the Harbor, two horse -drawners found a woman’s corpse in a straw. How did the lady get here in jewelry for fifteen thousand francs, to which the killer did not even touch?! Maybe Mary Lampson prevented her husband, Sir Walter, who burned his life on an expensive yacht with her mistress and old friend Willy? But Willy soon finds dead – and the murderer’s handwriting is the same. Commissioner Megre already guessed who considered himself a punishing hand of Providence and decided to avenge the offenders at the betrayal and years of humiliation at the cost of his own life …
Author
Simenon Georges
Translator
Boldin Ella
Publisher
Bertelsmann, 2013
Series
Detective in your pocket
Genre
Classical foreign prose
16+
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