Commissioner Jules Maigret's eyes "smile" as he has breakfast, accompanied by his wife, because life is "pleasant". They are both at the house in Meung-sur-Loire that they have been fixing up for years for the day Maigret has to retire. The 55-year-old man has two years and a few months left before leaving the police force, and this is perhaps the only regret he feels amidst the summer calm and the promise of lobster with mayonnaise for lunch. This is how "Maigret's Patience, novel by Georges Simenon (Liège, 1903 - Lausanne, 1989) which has just ceased to be unpublished in Catalan thanks to the small and exquisite Barcelona publishing house Días Contados, launched in 2009 by lawyer Ramon Girbau.

"He folded the diary, which first unfolded on his knees and then slid slowly down before landing on the waxed parquet floor. You would have thought he had just fallen asleep if it weren't for the thin slit that occasionally appeared between his eyelids." This is the lazy and narcotic—yet also direct and addictive—opening of The cat (1966), one of the great novels by Georges Simenon (1903-1989), has been chosen from the outset by Quaderns Crema and Acantilado to begin their re-release, starting October 13th, of the literary legacy of one of the essential writers of the 20th century. Editor Jaume Vallcorba intends to publish it "with the respect due to great writers," combining the so-called harsh Romans With 72 novels featuring the celebrated Inspector Maigret, always with his pipe in hand and paying attention to the smallest and most revealing details. The Maigret series will begin with Pietr, the Latvian and will continue in November with The Yellow Dog One month later The cat will arrive The canal house