The Hotel Majestic » (Reprint)

Georges Simenon (1903—1989) is one of the most widely read and published novelists of all time. He wrote more than two hundred books under his own name—including seventy-five Maigret novels—and more than two hundred under a series of pseudonyms.

Penguin delivers two more vintage Inspector Maigret novels by the legendary mystery author

In The Hotel Majestic, Maigret investigates the murder of Mrs. Clark, the wife of a wealthy American industrialist, whose strangled body is found in the basement of an upscale hotel near the Champs-Élysées. Maigret's inquiries take him from the endless corridors of the Hotel Majestic to the countryside of the Bois de Boulogne and sun-drenched Cannes, into a world of prostitution, drug addiction, and blackmail.

The Washington Post - Patrick Anderson

The Bar on the Seine (1931) and The Hotel Majestic (1942)…are solid police procedurals, but beyond that they are charming and sometimes magical evocations of a Paris now long vanished.