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  1. The Crime of Inspector Maigret (other English-language titles are Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets and The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien) is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. The original French-language version Le Pendu de Saint-Pholien appeared in 1931: it is one of the earliest novels by Simenon featuring the detective Jules Maigret .

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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...

  5. Feb 2, 2020 · Maigret books (by Georges Simenon) translated into English. The "aka" titles are the current ones used by Penguin for their recent (new) translations. If there're no "aka" for books then those titles are also the Penguin ones. (I hope this is clear enough :)

  6. Inspector Maigret Series by Georges Simenon. 75 primary works • 97 total works. Inspector Maigret, a police inspector in Paris, France, and Madame Maigret, his wife.

  7. Jules Maigret, fictional character, an unassuming, compassionate, and streetwise Parisian police commissioner who is the protagonist of more than 80 novels by Georges Simenon. Simenon’s books featuring Inspector Maigret include Pietr-le-Letton (1931; The Case of Peter the Lett), Le Chien jaune.

  8. Mar 24, 2023 · In this story, as in so much of the Maigret oeuvre, the Chief Inspector claims to know nothing while sitting in stillness at the heart of the mystery and eventually revealing the truth. If this is a ‘chance’ it’s a Pascalian gamble of a chance.

  9. Inspector Maigret and the Strangled Stripper (original French-language title Maigret au "Picratt's") is a detective novel by the Belgian crime writer Georges Simenon published in 1950, featuring the author's most celebrated character Inspector Maigret.

  10. Jul 24, 2024 · Simenon writes, “Maigret may well have been divisional chief inspector and head of the Police Judiciaire Crime Squad, but he was still of the people.”. In one book, Maigret doesn’t formally appear until half way through the story, though he’s been a character of interest in the shadows. The stories lilt. They float.