Maigret's first impressions of the USA shape this lively new translation, the twenty-seventh book in the new Penguin Maigret series. What was it about him that had so strongly impressed Maigret? Little John had cold eyes. Four or five times in his life, he had encountered people with cold eyes, those eyes that can stare at you without establishing any human connection. Persuaded by an anxious young law student to sail to New York, Maigret finds himself in the city's underworld and the carefully guarded past of a wealthy businessman. Penguin is releasing the entire series of Maigret novels in new translations. Gripping, relentless, brilliant. John Gray, one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, was unmatched by Simenon in making us think, although this ability was overshadowed by his talent for drawing us obsessively into his stories. An outstanding writer.