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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. The character's full name is Jules Amédée François Maigret. [3]
Maigret and the Burglar's Wife (French: Maigret et la Grande Perche) is a 1951 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. [1] Maigret is spurred into action by a visit from a burglar's wife, whom he had known well many years before. She informs him that a few nights previously her husband had ...
Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ simnɔ̃]; 12/13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer, most famous for his fictional detective Jules Maigret.
The story has been adapted four times for film and television: in English in 1963 as The Crime at Lock 14, with Rupert Davies in the main role; in Japanese in 1978 as Keishi to Minami Jūjisei ("the Southern Cross") with Kinya Aikawa; in French in 1980 as Le Charretier de "La Providence" with Jean Richard, and again in 2001 as Maigret et la croqueuse de diamants ("Maigret and the gold-diggers ...
Madame Maigret's Own Case; 293383 Maigret; Maigret and Monsieur Charles; Maigret and the Burglar's Wife; Maigret and the Coroner; Maigret and the Dosser; Maigret and the Headless Corpse; Maigret and the Hotel Majestic; Maigret and the Killer; Maigret and the Lazy Burglar; Maigret and the Loner; Maigret and the Mad Woman; Maigret and the Man on ...
Maigret's Memoirs is a novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Unlike other Maigret novels, there is no plot; Jules Maigret himself writes about his life and work, and about his relation with the novelist Georges Simenon. It was written from 19 to 26 September 1950 in Lakeville, Connecticut USA. Simenon had recently remarried and had ...
Maigret and the Hotel Majestic (French: Les Caves du Majestic) is a 1942 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. [1]This novel was first published in English in 1977 by Hamish Hamilton (London) and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich (New York), translated by Caroline Hillier, later also published under the title The Hotel Majestic.
Maigret and the Black Sheep Maigret and the Lazy Burglar (also translated as Maigret and the Idle Burglar ; French : Maigret et le Voleur paresseux ) is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon , featuring his character Inspector Jules Maigret .