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While in Brussels on police business, Maigret notices a scruffy man, who counts a large quantity of banknotes and posts them as "Printed Matter" to an address in Paris; intrigued, he follows the man by train via Amsterdam to Bremen in Germany.
- Georges Simenon, Linda Coverdale
- 1931
He was from the village of Saint-Fiacre in the Allier Department, where his father Evariste Maigret was the bailiff for the local landowner; see Simenon's novel Maigret's Failure (Un échec de Maigret), about a school bully and contemporary, "Fatty" Ferdinand Fumal from the same village.
Sep 19, 2024 · Take La Tête d’un homme (A Man’s Head), among the earlier crop of Simenon’s Maigret novels. Joseph Huertin, a slow-witted delivery boy, faces the gallows for the twin murders of the wealthy American Mme. Henderson and her maid. Certain of his guilt, all others have long deserted Huertin. Maigret, however, senses there is more at play here.
Crime in the Rue Sainte-Catherine (cho) Crime of Inspector Maigret, The (PHO) Crossroad Murders, The (NUI) Dancer at the Gai-Moulin, The (GAI) Dead Man's Barge (pen) Death of a Harbo (u)r Master (POR) Death of a Nobody (pau) Death of a Woodlander (lar) Death of Monsieur Gallet, The (GAL)
Mar 16, 2016 · While work was carried out in the Maigrets’ building, Simenon moved the couple to his own real address on Place des Vosges, but the no. 61 of the murder scene in L’Ombre chinoise (The Shadow Puppet) doesn’t exist: Place des Vosges has 36 houses, nine on each side.
Maigret began his life in the Judiciare patrolling the mean back streets of the capital-rubbing shoulders with petty criminals, gangsters, and prostitutes. Simenon had haunted the same places to collect raw material on which to base his stories.
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Nov 20, 2013 · In a sense, G K Chesterton was Father Brown and Agatha Christie was Miss Marple. Dashiell Hammett was a quarter Sam Spade and three-quarters the Continental Op. Yet Simenon was not Maigret; instead, he was almost the exact opposite. Where Simenon was promiscuous, Maigret is uxorious.
