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- At the mortuary Maigret meets Van Damme, a Belgian with an import-export business in Bremen, who seems to be interested in the dead man. In Paris, Maigret finds that the man's name is Jean Lecocq d'Arneville, and that the address to which d'Arneville posted the banknotes was his own address, a cheap hotel.
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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.
Jan 10, 2020 · So Maigret will investigate a murder by speaking to as many people as possible (the books are heavily driven by dialogue), soaking up the local atmosphere with a beer or three, retiring to his home where Madame Maigret will unfailingly provide a delicious dinner, and he will ponder the case, imaginatively entering the mind of the suspect.
At his urging, the Chief sends Maigret to investigate Marcellin's murder. Boutang ( IND ): Boutang is Commissioner of the PJ of Toulon (a colleague of Marella's, no doubt) and Maigret knows him well. A solid man, knows his profession well.
In the story, Maigret follows to Bremen, Germany, a man who is behaving oddly and then commits suicide; his investigation leads him to a group of men, now having various careers, who knew each other when they were students in Liège, Belgium.
- Georges Simenon, Linda Coverdale
- 1931
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The plot of the novel revolves around the murder of a stripper called Arlette, and the novel is noted for its depiction of the seedy nightlife of the Montmartre district in Paris.
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. It turns out that Arlette was romantically involved with one of Maigret's colleagues, Inspector Lapointe. A man named Os...
The novel has been published in English under three different titles: 1. Maigret in Montmartre, translated by Daphne Woodward and published by Hamish Hamilton in the United Kingdom, together with Maigret's Mistake, in a book called Maigret Right and Wrong(1954) 2. Inspector Maigret and the Strangled Stripper, translated by Cornelia Schaeffer and pu...
The novel has been rated one of the ten best Maigret stories and has been adapted several times for TV and film. It has been adapted three times in English: In 1960, as Murder in Montmartre, it was the first episode of the BBC's Maigret series, starring Rupert Davies in the title role; In 1993, as Maigret and the Night-club Dancer, it was an episod...
Sep 12, 2022 · Where Maigret is stodgily and permanently lodged with Madame Maigret within “a network of narrow, busy streets bounded by Boulevard Voltaire on one side and Boulevard Richard-Lenoir on the...
Aug 1, 2023 · Just as Maigret begins the investigation into the murder, he is notified that another man, also fitting the description of Pietr the Lett, has checked into the Majestic Hotel in Paris. The detective then begins a lengthy psychological game with the man who could be Pietr.
