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Maigret, accompanying his physician on an emergency call, is drawn into one of his most stubborn cases yet. The victim, a son of a wealthy perfume manufacturer, had been enjoying an odd hobby before his death: collecting human voices with a tape recorder, often in the rougher districts of Paris. But his wallet and his tape recorder have been left untouched, so the killer's motive is unclear. The absence of clues begins to exasperate Maigret until...

Stella Parrish, an attractive, intelligent, alienated seventeen-year-old girl who has lived with foster parents since age eleven, when her parents died of a heroin overdose, chronicles her last two weeks of high school as she plans to commit suicide.

Francois saves Xhabbo's life and is schooled in Bushman culture. Xhabba teaches him the methods needed to survive the violence of contemporary Africa.

In addition to the 23 stories published in "Flowering Judas and other stories", "The leaning tower and other stories", and "Pale horse, pale rider" are four previously uncollected stories.

"Winner of the 1947 Pulitzer Prize, All the King's Men is one of the most famous and widely read works in American fiction. Its original publication by Harcourt catapulted author Robert Penn Warren to fame and made the novel a bestseller for many seasons. Set in the 1930s, it traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie [Stark] Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career...