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Arlette, a stripper at Picratt's nightclub in Montmartre, reports to the police that she has overheard two men plotting to kill a "countess". Soon afterwards both Arlette and the Countess von Farnhem, a drug user, are found dead.
No great figure in detective fiction has ever come wholly from his creator’s imagination, of course, and Maigret is no exception to the rule. According to one popular tale, his prototype is supposed to have been an actual French detective, Marcel Guillaume, who died in 1963 at the age of 91.
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.
TitleFrench-language Publication DatePenguin Uk Reissue DateReissue #Maigret et Monsieur CharlesFebruary 19729 Jan 202075Maigret et l'indicateurJune 19715 Dec 201974Maigret et l'homme tout seulFebruary 19717 Nov 201973May 19703 Oct 201972Main Bibliography: all the French titles with English publications, in chronological order. Simplified index: all the novels and stories by English titles, but no collection titles. Collection index: "all" the collections in which Maigret novels and stories appear. French Index. Full Index combines all three.
Dec 24, 2017 · The fourth Maigret instalment sees the detective head to the North of Paris, Montmartre, to investigate the murders of two women, which at first appear unconnected, but in fact share a crucial...
Sep 12, 2022 · The Mysterious Case of Inspector Maigret. Georges Simenon was a high-living libertine; his greatest creation was a man of moral restraint. Yet the writer’s excesses are a clue to his detective’s...
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Maigret: With Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Frissung, Pierre Diot. The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth.