Collection: Language Learning Fiction

L’Italia di ieri e di oggi si incontrano grazie a un misterioso libro di ricette. Il volume fa parte della Nuova Serie della collana Italiano Facile, letture graduate per studenti stranieri con esercizi e versione audio del testo, con voci di attori professionisti ed effetti sonori realistici e c...

A visit from the tall, thin woman he arrested many years ago - now married to a hapless burglar - leads Maigret on a tortuous investigation in which he struggles with a formidable suspect. 'When he had set them to work, Maigret had had a merry, almost fierce glint in his eye. He had set them loos...

Two Maigret investigations. Maigret at the Gai-Moulin (1931) Two men planning to rob the till at a nightclub to pay off their debts, stumble on a dead body. As Maigret investigates he soon becomes entangled in a web of deceit. Maigret and the Ghost (1964) When a colleague is shot under mysterious...

The body of a well-known Parisian restaurateur turns up on Avenue Junot in Montmartre, having seemingly been killed elsewhere. Inspector Maigret dives into the investigation and soon discovers that the murder may be gang-related after a colleague working in the red-light district receives a tip f...

"Maigret, the famous inspector, will he manage to discover the assassin?". A collection of reading in French for entertaining, enriching, perfecting our knowledge of the great classics of French literature. -- Publisher's website.

In six months, five women living alone have been murdered in Montmartre. After a conversation with a psychiatrist, Maigret pretends to have arrested the culprit, hoping that the real killer will show up.

The attempted suicide of a countess and the death of a billionaire in the same luxury Paris hotel send Maigret to the Riviera and then to Switzerland, as he searches for the truth amid the glittering world of the super-rich.

A political drama set in the fictional country of Illyria between 1943 and 1945, the story is about the assassination of a leading politician. The story is told mainly in the form of a flashback, with the killer describing how he carried out his mission. The killer's identity is established from ...

Germain consoles himself for the death of his wife who was left him alone with three children. Germain want to be married again for the sake of his children.

"Set in 1930, four years after Agatha Christie's mysterious disappearance and subsequent divorce, the novel follows Christie as she travels to the Middle East to move past this tumultuous period in her life. Invited by her friend Katharine Woolley, wife of renowned British archaeologist Leonard W...