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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]
The book has been published five times in English: in 1941 as Death of a Harbour Master, in 1942 as Death of a Harbor Master, in 1943 as Death of a Harbormaster, in 1989 as Maigret and the Death of a Harbor Master translated by Stuart Gilbert; in 2015 as The Misty Harbor translated by Linda Coverdale. [1]
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 the Boulevard; Maigret and the Old Lady; Maigret and the Saturday Caller ...
Maigret is a British television series made by the BBC and which – following a pilot episode broadcast in 1959 – ran for 52 episodes from 1960 to 1963. [ 1 ] Based on the Maigret stories of Georges Simenon , the series starred Rupert Davies in the title role.
A BBC TV version of the book first aired on November 6, 1961, under the title Death of a Butcher with Rupert Davies playing Maigret. [2] Jean Richard played Maigret in the 1987 French TV version [ 3 ] and Bruno Cremer in the 2003 adaptation.
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.
The novel has been adapted three times for film and television: in English in 1960 as A Man of Quality, with Rupert Davies in the main role; in French in 1956 as Monsieur Gallet, décédé, directed by Jean Faucher with Henri Norbert in the main role; and in French in 1987 as Monsieur Gallet, décédé, directed by Jean-Marie Coldefy with Jean Richard in the lead role.
Maigret and the Coroner (other English-language title is Maigret at the Coroner's; French: Maigret chez le coroner) is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Inspector Jules Maigret. The novel was written between July 21 to July 30, 1949, in Tucson, Arizona, United States. [1]