The Carter of La Providence

"A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason." --John Le Carré

A tragic tale of lost identity, and a mystery that only Inspector Maigret can solve

"What was the woman doing here? 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. But how? And why? And no one had heard a thing! She had not screamed. The two carters had not woken up."

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 La Providence.

Author: Georges Simenon
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 04/01/2014
Series: Inspector Maigret #4
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.26lbs
Size: 7.75h x 5.26w x 0.34d
ISBN: 9780141393469
Audience: Young Adult

About the Author
Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was born on February 12th, 1903 in Liege, Belgium. At the age of nineteen, Simenon embarked to Paris to begin a career as a writer. In 1923 he began publishing under various pseudonyms, and in 1929 began the Inspector Maigret series which helped elevate him to a household name in continental Europe. His prolific output of more than four hundred novels and the gripping, dark realism of his prose has cemented him as an inedlible fixture of twentieth century literature. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerland.

David Coward is a translator from French, whose translations include works by authors such as Alexandre Dumas, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, and the Marquis de Sade.