A Battle of Nerves

by Georges Simenon · first published 1931

A Battle of Nerves (French: La Tête d'un homme, also known in English as A Man's Head) is a 1931 detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Detective Chief Inspector Maigret of the Paris judicial police.The plot involves Maigret's investigation of the murder a rich American woman and her maid for which a man might have been wrongly convicted. It has been translated into English twice and adapted for film and television nine times.

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Genre:

Crime fiction

Original language:

French

Year page:

1931