"Georges Simenon was a master of smouldering crime novels and stories told with a striking level of human perception and narrative flair, not at all lost in (English) translation.
Born in Liege, he began work as a reporter for a local newspaper at the age of sixteen, and at nineteen he moved to Paris to embark on a career as a novelist. Shortly before his death, his crime fictions were selling 300,000 copies a year in the mid-eighties in the USA alone. " Simenon in RTE
georgessimenon.co.uk
http://www.rte.ie/ten/reviews/books/2015/0720/716013-georges-simenon-inspector-maigret/

















