“The Old Lady of Bayeux” is included in the author’s collection of stories “New Investigations by Maigret.”

The Great French Revolution is one of the brightest pages in the history of mankind. Its main events took place in Paris, where the people stormed the Bastil...

When the body of a billionaire's wife and a doorman are found one after another in a fashionable hotel, and all the evidence points against only one person, ...

The cult novel by Georges Perec (1936–1982) is not only a detective plot, adventurous adventures and strange disappearances of characters. This is not only t...

The hero of “The Wandering Apprentice” is a craftsman, a representative of all poor workers. The novel attempts to find ways to eliminate injustice, when har...

"Mopra" is a peculiar interweaving of the features of a historical novel and a novel of education, a psychological novel and an adventure novel. The most pre...

At night, a robber made his way to an elderly woman. But where did the intruder get the key that police say he used to open the door? And why did the thief n...

Commissioner Maigret, outraged by the fact that Georges Simenon, his friend, writes about him in his books, takes up his pen himself. He must explain Simenon...

A vigilant elderly lady informs Commissioner Maigret about a dead body she accidentally saw through the window of a wealthy neighbor. Although all this is ve...

The book includes short stories and stories of short French prose of the 18th–20th centuries. Among them are fantastic short stories by Jacques Cazotte, Jean...

The 2nd volume of the Anthology includes plays by French playwrights created in the second half of the 20th - early 21st centuries. Differing in plots and th...