The Madman of Bergerac

A new translation of Simenons tense novel, book fifteen in the new Penguin Maigret series.He recalled his travelling companions agitated sleep - was it really sleep? - his sighs, and his sobbing. Then the two dangling legs, the patent-leather shoes and hand-knitted socks . . . An insipid face. Glazed eyes. And Maigret was not surprised to see a grey beard eating into his cheeks. A distressed passenger leaps off a night train and vanishes into the woods.Maigret, on his way to a well-earned break in the Dordogne, is soon plunged into the pursuit of a madman, hiding amongst the seemingly respectable citizens of Bergerac. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations.Compelling, remorseless, brilliant. - John Gray One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century .