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The first English translation, by Anthony Abbot, entitled The Crime of Inspector Maigret, appeared in 1932, published by Covici, Friede in New York. In 1963 a translation by Tony White, Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets, was published by Penguin Books, OCLC 2438079.
- Georges Simenon, Linda Coverdale
- 1931
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 201972During his northern tour, Simenon wrote three popular novels featuring a police inspector named Maigret, but only one, Train de nuit (Night Train) was accepted by Fayard.
Nov 28, 2016 · Georges Simenon (1903-1989), one of Belgium ’s most famous writers, published hundreds of novels and short stories and wrote 60 to 80 pages a day. What made Simenon stand out, however, was his ‘Maigret’ collection. The character of Inspector Jules Maigret, a French detective, appears in 75 full length novels and 28 short stories, and is ...
- Sarine Arslanian
- Pietr the Latvian. In Simenon’s first novel featuring Maigret, the laconic detective is taken from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he follows a trail of bodies and traces the true identity of the elusive international criminal, Pietr the Latvian.
- The Late Monsieur Gallet. Investigating the circumstances around the death of a certain Monsieur Gallet, Maigret finds that much of the man’s life was a lie: the name he travelled under and even his stated profession.
- The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien. On a trip to Brussels, Maigret unwittingly causes a man’s suicide, but his own remorse is overshadowed by the discovery of the sordid events that drove the desperate man to shoot himself.
- The Carter of La Providence. Maigret is standing in the pouring rain by a canal. A well-dressed woman, Mary Lampson, has been found strangled in a stable nearby.
In 1929 Maigret appeared in his first exploit, Pietr-le-Letton (The Strange Case of Peter the Lett), written by Simenon while he was sailing on a yacht, The Ostrogoth, in Dutch waters. Curiously, he admitted years later that he was unable to visualize the face of his big, powerful policeman as he put pen to paper, saying, “I have never been ...
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Detective Chief Inspector Maigret's curiosity about the peculiar behavior of a shabbily-dressed, middle-aged man waiting in the Gare de Neuschanz train station in 1930 Netherlands leads to a tragic suicide, for which Maigret correctly fears he is at least partly responsible.
