{"product_id":"the-carter-of-la-providence","title":"The Carter Of La Providence","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe fourth book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's tragic tale of lost identity, in a gripping new translation by David Coward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat was the woman doing here? \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there because the crime had been committed after ten in the evening.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eBut how? And why? And no one had heard a thing! She had not screamed. The two carters had not woken up.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eInspector Maigret is standing in the pouring rain by a canal. A well-dressed woman, Mary Lampson, has been found strangled in a stable nearby. Why did her glamorous, hedonistic life come to such a brutal end here? Surely her taciturn husband Sir Walter knows - or maybe the answers lie with the crew of the barge \u003ci\u003eLa Providence\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePenguin is publishing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. This novel has been published in previous translations as \u003ci\u003eLock 14\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eMaigret Meets a Milord\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Compelling, remorseless, brilliant' John Gray\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequalled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A supreme writer . . . unforgettable vividness' \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45073500274867,"sku":"9780141393469","price":480.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/61z9_1LtTWL.jpg?v=1762870332","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/the-carter-of-la-providence","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}