Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: books, classics, review, york, new, widow
Number of Pages: 108
Published: 2008-03-25
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1590172612
ISBN-13: 9781590172612

The Widow is the story of two outcasts and their fatal encounter. One is the widow herself, Tati. Still young, she’s never had an easy time of it, but she’s not the kind to complain. Tati lives with her father-in-law on the family farm, putting up with his sexual attentions, working her fingers to the bone, improving the property and knowing all the time that her late husband’s sister is scheming to kick her out and take the house back. The other is a killer. Just out of prison and in search of a new life, Jean meets up with Tati, who hires him as a handyman and then takes him to bed. Th

Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: books, classics, review, york, new, engagement
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2007-03-06
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 1590172280
ISBN-13: 9781590172285

On the outskirts of Paris, a prostitute is found murdered in a vacant lot. In a seedy apartment house nearby lives pasty, fat Mr. Hire. Mr. Hire, who earns his living through a petty postal scam, is a convicted pornographer, a peeping Tom, and, once a week, the unlikely star of a Parisian bowling club, where people think he works for the police. He is a faceless man of regular habits who keeps to himself and gives his neighbors the creeps. After the murder, Mr. Hire’s concierge points a finger at him: he was out late the night of the crime. The police have the suspect under 24-hour surveilla

Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: bergerac, madman
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-06-05
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0143111965
ISBN-13: 9780143111962

One of the world’s most successful crime writers, Georges Simenon has thrilled mystery lovers around the world since 1931 with his matchless creation Inspector Maigret. In The Madman of Bergerac, Maigret gets caught up in an investigation in a provincial French town terrorized by a maniacal murderer—only after being shot following a man who has mysteriously jumped off a moving train. The Madman of Bergerac captures the obsessive snobbery and hypocrisy of small-town bourgeoisie.

Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: books, classics, review, york, snow, new, dirty
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2003-08-31
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1590170431
ISBN-13: 9781590170434

Dirty Snow, widely acknowledged as one of Simenon’s finest books, is a study of the criminal mind comparable to Jim Thompson’s The Killer Inside Me. It tells the story of Frank, a pimp, a petty thief, and collaborator in occupied France. Through the long and unrelenting cold and darkness of a long winter Frank pursues all the possibilites of perdition until at last there is nowhere left to go. Hans Koning has described Dirty Snow as "one of the very few novels to come out of German-occupied France that gets it exactly right." Simenon maps a no man’s land of the spirit in which

Author: Georges Simenon
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: inspector, mysteries, cadaver, maigret
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-12-18
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0143112813
ISBN-13: 9780143112815

Three vintage Maigret novels by legendary mystery author Georges Simenon One of the world ’s most successful crime writers, Georges Simenon has thrilled mystery lovers since 1931 with his matchless creation Inspector Maigret. In My Friend Maigret, Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a small- time crook on a Mediterranean island. Told in Simenon’s spare, unsentimental prose, Inspector Cadaver is a haunting exploration of provincial hypocrisy and snobbery, in which Maigret encounters a rival sleuth from his past. In Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard, Simenon’s tena

Authors:Georges Simenon, Marc Romano, Norman Rush,
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Keywords: books, classics, review, york, new, tropic
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2005-09-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 159017111X
ISBN-13: 9781590171110

A young Frenchman, Joseph Timar, travels to Gabon carrying a letter of introduction from an influential uncle. He wants work experience; he wants to see the world. But once in the oppressive heat and glare of the equator, Timar doesn’t know what to do with himself, and no one seems inclined to help except Adèle, the hotel owner’s wife, who takes him to bed one day and rebuffs him the next, leaving him sick with desire. But then, in the course of a single night, Adèle’s husband dies and a black servant is shot, and Timar is sure that Adèle is involved. He’ll cover for

Authors:Gregory Georges, Lauren Georges,
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: projects, photo, digital, fast
Number of Pages: 343
Published: 2005-08-05
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0764574477
ISBN-13: 9780764574474

Offers step-by-step techniques for a wide range of creative digital photography projects, from greeting cards, recipe pages, invitations, and illustrated books to panoramas, collages, bound photo albums, DVD slide shows, and Web galleries Perfect for the exploding digital photography market, which has grown from 6.7 million cameras sold in 2000 to a projected 42 million in 2005 Released to hit stores right after the 2004 gift-giving season, it’s the perfect companion to the author’s previous bestsellers, which include 50 Fast Digital Camera Techniques