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  1. What's remarkable in the Maigrets, is that this "hero" is rendered so human, so alive, by his creator, endowing him with characteristics very close to "everyday life"; he's given him habits, desires, culinary preferences, an appearance which gives him an extraordinary presence for the reader.

  2. It is during the wintering of the Ostrogoth and its captain at Stavoren, a small sheltered harbor to the south of Frieze, that must be located, in our opinion, the writing of the fourth "Maigret," incontestably the most important in this "prehistory" (or "proto-history") of the superintendent with the pipe: La Maison de l'inquiétude. This work ...

  3. Mar 16, 2016 · This happened at the bend of the canal, level with Rue des Recollets, where it obstructed the passage of a barge. The nearby L’Atmosphère, which caters to a laid-back Bobo clientele, is the very site of working-class Paupol in the story.

  4. Four cases describe Maigret's last year of active duty: M Hesitates [91], M and Monsieur Charles [92], The Lock at Charenton [93], and, on almost his last day, "At the Etoile du Nord" (94]. On May, 15, at 69, Maigret retires to his cottage in Meung-sur-Loire.

  5. One rainy night a canal worker stumbles across the strangled body of Mary Lampson in a stable near Lock 14. The dead woman's husband seems unmoved by her death and is curt and unhelpful when Maigret interviews him aboard his yacht.

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  6. Jules Maigret (French: [ʒyl mɛɡʁɛ]), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a commissaire ("commissioner") of the Paris Brigade Criminelle (Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres), created by writer Georges Simenon.

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  8. Dec 25, 2016 · Let's start with the good news: Maigret WILL be back for two more films. ITV actually announced this a while ago, revealing back in June that they have plans to adapt two more of...

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