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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]
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.
Maigret's Dead Man (French: Maigret et son mort), also translated as Maigret and His Dead Man and Maigret’s Special Murder, is a 1948 detective novel by the Belgian novelist Georges Simenon featuring the fictional character Jules Maigret. It was Simenon's 29th Maigret novel.
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 ...
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. Its alternate English-language titles include Maigret in Montmartre and Maigret at Picratt's.
Death of a Harbour Master (other English-language titles are Death of a Harbormaster, Maigret and the Death of a Harbor Master and The Misty Harbor; French: Le Port des brumes) is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character inspector Jules Maigret.
The Death of Monsieur Gallet (other English-language titles are Maigret Stonewalled and The Late Monsieur Gallet; French: Monsieur Gallet, décédé) is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon. It is one of the earliest novels by Simenon featuring the detective Jules Maigret.
Maigret and the Spinster (other English-language title is Cécile is Dead; French: Cécile est morte) is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character inspector Jules Maigret.