My Friend Maigret

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First published as Mon ami Maigret 1949
This translation first published by Hamish Hamilton 1956
Reissued, with minor revisions in Penguin Classics 2003
Published as a Penguin Red Classic 2006
This edition published by Penguin Books (USA) 2007

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING IN PUBLICATION DATA

Simenon, Georges, 1903–1989.
[Mon ami Maigret. English]
My friend Maigret / Georges Simenon; translated by Nigel Ryan.
p. cm.—(A Penguin mystery)
ISBN: 978-1-1012-0190-9
1. Maigret, Jules (Fictitious character)—Fiction.
2. Porquerolles Island (France)—Fiction. I. Ryan, Nigel. II. Title.
PQ2637.I53M5713 2008
843'.912—dc22 2007025931

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