{"product_id":"9780141976709","title":"Engineering Drawing with a Primer on AutoCAD","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe third book in the new Penguin Maigret series: Georges Simenon's haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt, in a compelling new translation by Linda Coverdale.\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA first ink drawing showed a hanged man swinging from a gallows on which perched an enormous crow. And there were at least twenty other etchings and pen or pencil sketches that had the same leitmotif of hanging.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the edge of a forest: a man hanging from every branch.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA church steeple: beneath the weathercock, a human body dangling from each arm of the cross. . . Below another sketch were written four lines from \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrançois \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eVillon's Ballade of the Hanged Men.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly causes a man's suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself.\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\u003eMaigret and the Hundred Gibbets\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Crime of Inspector Maigret\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":"Penguin Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47108850024688,"sku":"9780141976709","price":9.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780141976709_p0.jpg?v=1763656257","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780141976709","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}