A new translation of this gripping domestic tragedy, set in Simenon's very own neighbourhood. Book twelve in the new Penguin Maigret series. One by one the lighted windows went dark. The silhouette of the dead man could still be seen through the frosted glass like a Chinese shadow puppet. A taxi pulled up. It wasn't the public prosecuto r yet. A young woman crossed the cour A new translation of this gripping domestic tragedy, set in Simenon's very own neighbourhood. Book twelve in the new Penguin Maigret series. One by one the lighted windows went dark. The silhouette of the dead man could still be seen through the frosted glass like a Chinese shadow puppet. A taxi pulled up. It wasn't the public prosecuto r yet. A young woman crossed the courtyard with hurried steps, leaving a whiff of perfume in her wake. Summoned to the dimly-lit Place des Vosges one night, wh ere he sees shadowy figures at apartment windows, Maigret uncovers a tragic sto r y of desperate lives, unhappy families, addiction a nd a terrible, fatal greed. Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as Maigret Mystified a nd The Shadow in the Courtyard. 'Compelling, remo r seless, brilliant' John Gray 'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at abso r bing us obsessively in his sto r ies' Guardian 'A supreme writer . . . unfo r gettable vividness' Independent Geo r ges Simenon was bo r n in Liège, Belgium, in 1903. Best known in Britain as the autho r of the Maigret books, his prolific output of over 400 novels a nd sho r t sto r ies have made him a household name in continental Europe. He died in 1989 in Lausanne, Switzerla nd, wh ere he had lived fo r the latter part of his life.