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<p><b>'Compelling remorseless brilliant' John Gray </b> <br><br><i>A small thin man rather dull to look at neither young nor old exuding the stale smell of a bachelor who does not look after himself. He pulls his fingers and cracks his knuckles and tells his tale the way a schoolboy recites his lesson.</i><br><br>A mysterious note predicting the murder of a fortune-teller; a confused old man locked in a Paris apartment; a financier who goes fishing; a South American heiress ... Maigret must make his way through a frustrating maze of clues suspects and motives to find out what connects them.<br><br>Penguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as <i>To Any Lengths </i>and <i>Maigret and the Fortuneteller</i>.<br><br>'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 absorbing us obsessively in his stories' <i>Guardian</i> <br><br>'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' <i>Independent</i></p>