The first novel which appeared in Georges Simenon\'s famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos.
But his frame.
He shaved every day and looked after his hands.
His clothes were well cut and made of fairly light worsted.
He didn\'t have a moustache and he didn\'t wear heavy boots.
Not that he looked like a cartoon policeman.
He constituted a kind of foreign body that the hotel\'s atmosphere could not assimilate. \'Inevitably Maigret was a hostile presence in the Majestic.
The first novel which appeared in Georges Simenon\'s famous Maigret series, in a gripping new translation by David Bellos