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Celebrated crime fiction expert Barry Forshaw's informed and lively study draws together Georges Simenon's extraordinary life and his work on both page and screen. Alongside his own considerable insights, Barry Forshaw has interviewed people who worked either with Simenon or on his books: publishers, editors, translators, and other specialist writers. He has created a literary prism through which to appreciate one of the most distinctive achievements in the whole of crime fiction.