Simenon's Inspector Maigret 36 Quai des Orfèvres Paris... The Maigret Forum This is not a static website. It changes almost daily. The Maigret " Forum ," an open bulletin board for notices, opinions, information and discussion related to Maigret and Simenon, has become the most active feature of this site. It's where new books, websites, articles and features are first announced and displayed, and includes an indexed archive of the entire past Forum... back to 1997! Click here for the current Forum. Here's a recent sample - Simenon - Loustal - Maigret 12/7/16  A new edition of Simenon's (non-Maigret) story "Un nouveau dans la ville" has just been issued by Omnibus, illustrated by Loustal, in which Loustal gets equal billing with Simenon on the cover...

The story, written at Desert Sands, Tucson, Arizona in 1949, and published the following year, was translated into English by Bernard Lechtman as The Novel of Man, and appeared as a limited edtion in 1964 (Harcourt, Brace & World, 59pp), "a lecture delivered in the Main Auditorium of the Brussels World Fair on October 3, 1958... published as a New Year's greeting to friends of the author & the publisher." Maigret fans are no doubt familiar with Jacques de Loustal's illustrations, which have been reported on these Forum pages a number of times... The Forum article of May 2, 2003 included links to the 2000 Figaro Magazine article on Loustal's Simenon/Maigret illustrations. In addition to two Yantchevsky Maigret covers, the covers of four Loustal Maigrets appeared in the Sept.

7, 2005 Forum , Maigret et l'inspecteur malgracieux (2002) [ mal ], Le témoinage de l'enfant de choeur (2002) [ cho ], Le client le plus obstiné du monde (2000) [ obs ], and On nu tue pas les pauvres types (2000) [ pau ]. Two other Loustal Maigrets, Ceux du Grand Café [ ceu ] and Menaces de Mort [ men ] were published in 2001, and all six were published in a single volume in 2014, Six enquetes de Maigret. From Oct. 15, 2014 - Feb. 28, 2015 there was a Loustal/Simenon Exhibition at BILIPO in Paris, attended by Jérôme, who reported to the Forum on Oct. 7, 2014 , and sent several of his photos of the exhibition on Oct. 18 .

A postage stamp designed by Loustal was issued by France (on my birthday!) in 2013, portraying 36 Quai des Orfèvres, the site of Maigret's office... ST A phenomenal author and his phenomenal character Georges Simenon was by many standards the most successful author of the 20th century, and the character he created, Inspector Jules Maigret, who made him rich and famous, ranks only after Sherlock Holmes as the world's best known fictional detective. There is nothing commonplace about the life of Georges Simenon, and he and his works have been the subject of innumerable books and articles. The Maigret stories are unlike any other detective stories  the crime and the details of unraveling it are often less central to our interest than Maigret's journey through the discovery of the cast of characters... towards an understanding of man. Simenon said he was obsessed with a search for the "naked man"  man without his cultural protective coloration, and he followed his quest as much in the Maigrets as in his "hard" novels. Although most of Simenon's work is available in English, it was originally written in French.

Simenon was born and raised in Belgium, and while Paris was "the city" for him, the home of Maigret, he was 'an international,' a world traveler who moved often and lived for many years in France, the United States, and Switzerland. Because he wrote in French, and for the most part lived in French-speaking countries, most of the books and magazine articles about him were written in French as well. Unlike his own books however, many of these have never been available in translation. Because Simenon lived to be nearly 90, and left a legacy of hundreds of books  from which more than 50 films have been made, along with hundreds of television episodes  there is much to collect, to examine, to display and discuss. This site takes Maigret as its theme, and Simenon as its sub-theme. There is much here about all aspects of Simenon and Maigret, but not so much about Simenon's other, non-Maigret books. There are full texts of many magazine and journal articles, including many translated into English here, as far as I am aware, for the first time.

In this way non-French-speaking Maigret fans can now share, in a time-compressed form, articles about Simenon and Maigret spanning more than 70 years, as well as a forum for discussion and contribution which... Enough. There's a lot here. Enjoy your visit. Come back again, and feel free to contribute to the Forum. Corrections, comments, and suggestions are welcome. Steve Trussel Maigret - first name and background information / Fondations.net Maigret - first name and background information January 30, filed in: culture Maigret's trademark First name and other biographical details The Belgian writer Georges Simenon invented Inspector Maigret in 1929. Between 1931 and 1972, created 75 novels and 28 short stories with Maigret in the lead role. The first name of the Commissioner is Jules - albeit middle names are mentioned in various works. According to the novel "Maigret and his revolver" means the Commissioner Jules-Joseph Anthelme, according to "Maigret's first investigation", however, Jules Amédée François.

Not only the names have different information, including the date of birth varies within the works. After Maigret's fictional biography of losing his parents early and begins to study medicine, he breaks off. Then he goes to the police, where he is active initially, on patrol until he comes to the criminal investigation. At the end of his career, he has finally brought to the chief inspector. He is married and lead a good relationship with his wife Henriette, which is a traditional housewife. To the chagrin of the couple have no children, after a daughter died shortly after birth. In the books, the Commissioner is described as tall and stocky. He is a man of pleasure, who likes to eat and drink, and very often smokes a pipe. In addition to whistle his bowler hat is his trademark. A special feature in his character is his ability to empathize. He strives to understand the motives of the perpetrator, rather than to condemn him. Typical of his investigative work is his good sense, which he more familiar than analytical-rational methods. As a result, he is regarded as a kind of counterpoint to his famous colleague Sherlock Holmes, who is known for his brilliant and sober mind.

About Commissioner-Maigret author Georges Simenon Georges Simenon was born on February 12, 1903 and died on 4 September 1989. Simenon was already working as a journalist age of sixteen, and wrote in the 1920s in Paris many dime novels, which he published under pseudonyms. The works of Inspector Maigret, however, appeared under his real name and quickly made him famous. But despite his great success and many positive reviews Simenon has never been able to quite put the reputation of a Trivial author. Total Simenon wrote more than 300 novels and over 1000 short stories. Georges Simenon and 'Maigret' by Crispin Jackson By Crispin Jackson Mention the words 'Inspector Maigret' to anyone over the age of fifty and the most likely reply will be: "Ah, yes: Rupert Davies!

Now that was a good series!" More recently, of course, British television viewers have seen Michael Gambon in the rôle, and in the years since he made his first arrest in the novel Pietr-le-Letton, serialised in France in 1930, the pipe-smoking detective has inspired a total of 55 feature films and a staggering 279 T.V. adaptations! It is perhaps for this reason that Maigret is a familiar figure to thousands of people who have never read one of the 76 titles which he inspired. Indeed, I know one fanatical reader and collector of crime novels who has not read a single one of his adventures! If Maigret is best-known in this country as a television character, then it is also true to say that he is one of the few really great fictional detectives whose fame is matched by that of his author.

Many people who have never read a 'Maigret' adventure are familiar with at least some of the myths surrounding the life of the remarkable Belgian novelist who created him, George Simenon: his sexual excesses, the amazing speed with which he completed his (admittedly short) novels, the endless moving from house to house until his reclusive final years in a small cottage in Lausanne. Some of these myths have been explored in a fascinating new biography by the British journalist, Patrick Marnham. In this article, I will be considering Simenon's life in the new light of Marnham's findings, and looking at the genesis and development of his most famous creation. AMBITION Georges Joseph Simenon was born ten minutes after twelve on the night of 12th February 1903 in the Belgian city of Liège. His early ambitions were towards the priesthood  he was an altar boy at the chapel of the local hospital  but this vocation did not survive the twin shocks of the First World War and Georges' discovery of women (the latter succeeding the other by only two years).

In fact, the war years were so brutal in occupied Liège that they effectively put an end to the ordered, bourgeois world of his childhood: he became, like everybody else in the city, a small-time black marketeer, and very nearly turned to crime of a more serious sort. In 1919, inspired by the 'Rouletabille' stories of Phantom of the Opera-author Gaston Leroux which described the adventures of a young reporter, he joined the Gazette de Liège, a right wing, Catholic newspaper. During his time with the newspaper, the young 'Georges Sim', as he called himself, interviewed Emperor Hirohito of Japan and Marshal Foch, but he made his greatest impact as a crime reporter. It's curious that in 1963 Simenon should have claimed that "when I wrote the first six or seven 'Maigrets' . . . I knew absolutely nothing about police organisation" in the light of his work for the Gazette, which involved long hours in the press box of the Liège criminal courts.

Indeed, it seems clear that Simenon was at the time already preparing himself for a career as a crime novelist: in 1920 he signed on for series of lectures on the newly-emerging subject of forensic science, which he attended into the following year. Maigret in New York was written in 1947, but wasn't published in this country until 32 years later. HUMOROUS In 1973, Simenon told the French journalist Henri-Charles Tauxe that "at fifteen, I wanted to be a novelist". If this is true, then it only took him two years to achieve his ambition: in 1920 he wrote a humorous novel called Au Pont des Arches, which a local printers agreed to publish on the condition that he managed to obtain 300 subscribers. It was issued the following year. Encouraged by the success of this book he quickly wrote another, Jehan Pinaguet, a Rabelaisian tale about an alcoholic priest which the editor of the Gazette forbade him to publish.

On 28th November 1921, Simenon was devastated by the death of his father, to whom he'd always been very close. With his father went his main tie to Liège, and almost exactly a year later, on 14th December 1922, he said farewell to Belgium and boarded a train to Paris, returning only briefly three months later to marry his first wife, Tigy. In the French capital, Simenon took a succession of jobs, and continued to write a large amount of journalism, but concentrated on fiction, selling stories to magazines with names like Frou-Frou and Paris Flirt, and writing pot-boiler novels (or 'romans alimentaires') for six different publishers under a total of 24 pseudonyms (including 'Christian Brullls' and 'George Sims')! He also sold some stories to the popular newspaper, Le Matin, which was edited by the formidable Colette. His first true novel to be published in France was Le roman d'une dactylo, which was issued by J. Ferenczi as part of their 'pulp' series, 'Le Petit Livre', in 1924.

Over the next nine years, Simenon wrote another 187 such books for the company, only stopping in 1933 when the success of 'Maigret' finally gave him the freedom to write only what he wanted. All of these 'pulps' were published under pseudonyms, the most common of which were 'Jean de Perry' and 'Georges Simm' (sic). What brought Simenon  or 'Georges Sim', as he was still known  to the attention of the public was not so much his skill as his extraordinary energy as a writer. In 1924, he wrote three novels; in 1928  his peak as a 'pulp' author  he wrote 44. So notorious did his speed of composition become, that on 14th January 1927 he signed a contract with publisher Eugène Merle undertaking to spend seven days in a glass cage outside the Moulin Rouge nightclub, during which time he would write a novel which was subsequently to be serialised in Merle's newspaper, Paris-Matinal (Simenon actually published a novel called La Cage de Verre in 1971).

As it happened, the paper folded before 'Sim' was able to fulfil the contract, but he was allowed to keep the 50,000-franc advance, and the media interest generated by the stunt brought him a considerable amount of publicity. Maigret and Monsieur Charles (1973) was the last 'Maigret,' and the last novel Simenon ever wrote. APPRENTICESHIP The turning point in Simenon's career came in the spring of 1929 when, tired of the good life in Paris, he bought a fishing cutter, the Ostrogoth, and went on a year-long tour of the waterways of Belgium and Holland. After six years as a hack-novelist  a period which he had always seen as his literary apprenticeship  he had decided that the time had come for him to direct his energies towards the 'serious' novels which it had always been his intention to write. He didn't rush into it, however.

Travelling through the canals of the Low Countries, he continued to produce the roman populaires that provided him with the bulk of his income, and, although he was not quite so prolific as he had been the previous year, he was still able to complete 34 such novels in 1929. It was in the books he wrote during this period that Simenon developed the character of his most famous creation, Inspector Jules Amédée Maigret (named, according to his wife, after one of their fellow lodgers in Paris's Place des Vosges, although there was actually an 'Inspector Maigret' stationed in Liège whilst Simenon was a child). Maigret first emerges in the figure of 'N.49', a bulky, pipe-smoking detective featured in L'amant sans nom by 'Christian Brull', published by Fayard in 1929. Later that same year, 'Commissaire Maigret' made an appearance in Train de nuit, also published by Fayard. He is much nearer to the finished character, showing some of the Inspector's calmness of manner and understanding for criminals, but unlike his successor he is stationed in Marseille rather than Paris.

Maigret next appeared in La femme rousse, written just after Train de nuit. In this book, however, he has taken a step backwards, and has to play second fiddle to his junior inspector, Torrence, a character who had made his own debut in L'inconnue, published shortly before. Fayard rejected La femme rousse, which wasn't published until 1933, and then by a different company (Tallendier). Rô1es were reversed for La maison d'inquiétude, when Commissaire Maigret once again takes centre stage, Torrence serving as his assistant. In this story, the Commissaire has already accumulated many of the props which were to become part of his character  the pipe, the heavy overcoat, the stove in his office  and is already married and living in the boulevard Richard-Lenoir in Paris. Once again, this book was rejected by Fayard, and it was published in the magazine L'uvre as a serial, beginning on 1 March 1930 (so that it actually appeared in print before Train de nuit and La femme rousse).

It is important to understand that all of these books were 'pulp' novels, superior to anything that Simenon had written before, but still undoubtedly of the same genre (although sufficiently radical to be rejected by the editors at Fayard). The first true 'Maigret'  that is, the first book to not only feature the character but to be written in Simenon's mature style  was Pietr-le-Letton, written in Paris in the spring of 1930 and serialised in Ric et Rac, a magazine published by Fayard, between July and October of that year. Simenon decided to "launch Maigret" in style, with a massive bal anthropométrique (named after the police department where suspects were stripped naked, measured and photographed), held in a Montparnasse nightclub, La Boule Blanche, on 20 February 1931. The invitations for this event were designed like a police record card, and all the guests  who came dressed as policemen or criminals  were fingerprinted at the door. The ball swallowed up Fayard's entire publicity budget for the year, but was a tremendous success.

'George Simenon' (as opposed to the better-known 'George Sim' or 'Christian Brulls') had arrived at last. The ball was organised to launch the first two 'Maigret' novels published in book form: M. Gallet, décédé (published in English under the titles The Death of Monsieur Gallet and Maigret Stonewalled) and Le pendu de St. Pholien (published in English as The Crime of Inspector Maigret and Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets). These books were a great success, and over the next three years, Simenon wrote another seventeen novels featuring the inspector. However, he had always seen him as a transitional figure, and at the end of the last of these books, simply entitled Maigret (ironically published in Britain under the title Maigret Returns), he astonished his many readers by retiring him off. By this time he had already completed a number of the roman littéraires or romans durs ('serious' novels) which it had always been his intention to write, and it is for this reason that he suddenly  although temporarily  abandoned the Inspector.

In October 1933, four months after the publication of Maigret, he left Fayard and signed a contract with Gallimard, France's most prestigious publishing company, under the terms of which he agreed to produce six novels a year. All of the one-volume Hamish Hamilton 'Maigerts,' like this one from 1973, can be bought for under £10. REPUTATION However, Simenon was not able to forget the character who had brought him a worldwide reputation. In late 1939, he began Cécile est morte (Maigret and the Spinster), which  along with its two successors Les caves du Majestic (Maigret and the Hotel Majestic) and La maison du juge (Maigret in Exile)  was published in one volume under the title Maigret revient by Gallimard in October 1942. The war years saw the publication of one more 'Maigret' omnibus, Signé Picpus (1944), containing three novels and five short stories, and one volume of stories, Les nouvelles enquêtes de Maigret (1944).

The years after the armistice where unsettled ones for Simenon. In 1945, he emigrated to America with his family, and in November of that same year met and fell in love with his second wife, Denyse Ouimet. They married in 1950. In 1955, he returned to Europe, living in a number of houses in France and Switzerland before settling in a cottage in Lausanne. Despite this rather peripatetic lifestyle, Simenon remained as prolific as ever, writing a further 49 'Maigret' novels and three volumes of short stories, as well as over seventy romans durs, before his much-publicized retirement in 1973. In July of that year, his publisher, Les Presses de la Cité (who had handled all but a handful of his books since 1947), issued the last of his novels, Maigret et Monsieur Charles, and from then until his death on 4 September 1989 he wrote nothing but a series of wildly inaccurate (and still largely untranslated) memoirs.

For the last forty years of his life he had been  by general consent  the best-selling novelist in the world, with global sales topping three million books a year. But what of Simenon's reputation in Britain, and particularly with collectors? The first point to make is that all 75 of the 'Maigret' novels have been published in English, along with all but a handful of the short stories (there have been two collections issued in this country, both published by Hamish Hamilton: Maigret's Christmas from 1976, and Maigret's Pipe from the following year, which contain nine and eighteen stories respectively). However, because of the shortness of the novels, and Maigret's enforced retirement between 1934 and 1942, the books have had a rather complicated publishing history in this country. The first nineteen 'Maigret' novels  in other words, those written between 1930 and 1934  were all published in Great Britain between 1933 and 1941, before the character made a spectacular return in France with the publication of Maigret revient in October 1942.

There were two important differences, however: they were not published in the same order as they had been in France, and unlike their continental counterparts, all the novels were published in pairs (the tenth and last volume, Maigret and M. L'abbe, included a non-'Maigret' novel, The Man from Everywhere / Le relais d'Alsace, as well as the 'Maigret' Death of a Harbour Master / Le port des brumes). Of these ten volumes, by far the most sought-after now are the first three: Introducing Inspector Maigret (1933; containing The Crime of Inspector Maigret / Le pendu de Saint-Pholien and The Death of Monsieur Gallet / M. Gailet, décédé), Inspector Maigret Investigates (1933; containing The Crossroad Murders / La nuit du carrefour and Pietr-le-Letton), and The Triumph of Inspector Maigret (1934; containing The Crime at Lock 14 / Le Charretier de 'la Providence' and The Shadow in the Courtyard / L'ombre chinoise), all published by Hurst & Blackett.

These attractive volumes  each one bound in dark red cloth with black lettering, and featuring a pictorial dustjacket  are by far the scarcest and most expensive of all the 'Maigret' books in English, with Very Good copies of the first selling for up to £150, and similar copies of the other two for as much as £125. There was then a gap of over five years, before Maigret was taken up by Routledge, who between September 1939 and September 1941 published all the remaining novels in seven, two-novel volumes.

Of these, the first four  The Patience of Maigret (1939; containing A Battle of Nerves / La tête d'un homme and A Face for a Clue / Le chien jaune), Maigret Travels South (1940; containing Liberty Bar / 'Liberty bar' and The Madman of Bergerac / Le fou de Bergerac), Maigret Abroad (1940; containing A Crime in Holland / Un crime en Hollande and At the Gai-Moulin / La danseuse du Gai-Moulin) and Maigret to the Rescue (1940; containing The Flemish Shop / Chez les Flamands and The Guinguette by the Seine / La guinguette à deux sous)  are the most collected, as they feature pictorial dustjackets by E. McKnight-Kauffer, the brilliant designer / artist famous for his classic posters for London Transport and Shell.

Routledge (or Routledge and Kegan Paul as they were known by then) published only two of the 'new' 'Maigrets'  A Summer Holiday / Les vacances de Maigret and To Any Lengths / Signé Pricpus in Maigret on Holiday (1950)  before Simenon signed a contract with Hamish Hamilton in 1951 which gave them exclusive rights to publish all of his books in the United Kingdom. They issued one two-novel 'Maigret'  Maigret Right and Wrong (1954; containing Maigret in Montmartre / Maigret au 'Picratt's' and Maigret's Mistake / Maigret se trompe)  thereafter publishing all his novels in one-volume editions. The 'Maigret' titles appeared at the rate of two-a-year  one in spring, one in autumn  from 1955 to 1980, ending with Maigret and the Coroner, first published in France 31 years earlier under the title Maigret chez le coroner.

This delay was by no means unusual: by the time Hamish Hamilton published their first 'Maigret' volume in November 1954, they already had a backlog of 25 books to catch up on. This they did gradually, not wanting to flood the market with books by Simenon, who up until 1972 produced at least two new novels a year. As a result, the order in which the 'Maigret' books were published in Britain often bears little relation to the order in which they were written and issued in France. Apart from the three Hurst & Blackett volumes, most of the 'Maigret' novels can be picked up quite cheaply. None of the single-volume Hamish Hamilton titles sells for more than £10 today, whilst the eight two-novel editions issued by Routledge between 1939 and 1941 are much cheaper than their Hurst & Blackett predecessors, selling for between £30 and £40.

On top of the first editions of these books, there are also one Octopus and six Hamish Hamilton omnibus editions, as well as paperbacks from Ace, Arrow, Digit, Four Square, Pan, Panther, Peacock, Toucan, WDL and, of course, Penguin (including fourteen omnibuses). There are also hardback reprints by White Lion (twelve novels) and Severn House (two novels). As well as the first editions, there are a number of reprints to be collected, like this one from 1980. LIST Anyone who wants a complete list of French, British and American editions, including British and American paperbacks, need look no further than Peter Foord's Georges Simenon: A Bibliography, published in 1988 as number three in the Dragonby bibliography series in a limited edition of 300 copies. A few copies of this 84-page, A5 booklet are still available at £10.40 (including postage) C.W.O. from: Richard Williams, The Dragonby Press, 15 High Street, Dragonby, Scunthorpe, South Humberside, DN15 0BE.

Patrick Marnham's new biography, The Man Who Wasn't Maigret: A Portrait of Georges Simenon (Bloomsbury, £17.99) can be highly recommended to those who want a thorough but readable account of the author's extraordinary life. Marnham doesn't make too much of Simenon's well-known sexual excesses, concentrating instead on his difficult childhood in war-torn Belgium, the memory of which took him over fifty years and almost two hundred novels to exorcise. For collectors, there is a selected (but very thorough) bibliography, which includes all the novels, his autobiographical writings and juvenilia, and a comprehensive list of secondary sources. The book is very well produced, and contains over forty photographs. Let the last word on Simenon go to Ford Madox Ford. In his massive study, The March of Literature, he wrote of one of the early 'Maigret' books that: "It is Dostoevsky: ... Dostoevsky, corsé, constructed, economized and filled with the poetry of pity." Solemn words perhaps, but appropriate nevertheless, and equally applicable to any one of Simenon's 193 novels.

In this article I have concentrated only on those that feature the kindly Inspector Maigret: there are over a hundred more, but, those will have to be dealt with in another feature! PRICE GUIDE TO THE 'MAIGRET' BOOKS OF GEORGES SIMENON A guide to current values of first editions in Very Good condition with dustjackets.

NOVELS INTRODUCING INSPECTOR MAIGRET (includes 'The Crime of Inspector Maigret' and 'The Death of Monsieur Gallet') (Hurst & Blackett, 1933) £125-£l50 INSPECTOR MAIGRET INVESTIGATES (includes 'The Strange Case of Peter the Lett' and 'The Crossroad Murders') (Hurst & Blackett, 1933) £100-£l25 THE TRIUMPH OF INSPECTOR MAIGRET (includes 'The Crime at Lock 14' and 'The Shadow on the Courtyard') (Hurst & Blackett, 1934) £100-£l25 THE PATIENCE OF MAIGRET (includes 'A Battle of Nerves' and 'A Face for a Clue') (Routledge, 1939) £30-£40 Maigret (TV Series 1992– ) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later.

X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error From Montmartre to the remote French countryside, Maigret encounters the dark side of the human psyche. Yet, he manages to maintain both compassion and a sense of humor as he explores the complex motives that lie behind every crime. Stars: After the collapse of a children's sanatorium kills 62, Maigret unofficially investigates the theft of engineer's report which had correctly predicted the disaster. 8.4 When a provincial middle-aged retiree is found shot to death in his bedroom, his relationship with his irascible young maid comes under Maigret's scrutiny. 8.1 When a young woman in distress calls Maigret in the middle of the night begging for help, the detective's chivalry is rewarded with a false charge of attempted rape.

8.1 a list of 22 titles created 20 Jan 2013 a list of 1980 titles created 16 Dec 2013 a list of 28 titles created 04 Sep 2014 a list of 70 titles created 01 Oct 2015 a list of 437 titles created 6 months ago Search for " Maigret " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth. Stars: Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Frissung Chief Inspector Jules Maigret hunts for a serial killer. Director: Ashley Pearce Maigret's Dead Man (TV Movie 2016) Crime | Drama | Mystery Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld. Director: Jon East Nick and Nora visit Nick's hometown, and end up involved in a murder.

Director: Richard Thorpe A man begins to suspect that something is wrong about his employers; meanwhile, Godzilla and Anguirus are alerted to something strange going on. Director: Jun Fukuda From Earth's pollution a new monster is spawned. Hedorah, the smog monster, destroys Japan and fights Godzilla while spewing his poisonous gas to further the damage. Director: Yoshimitsu Banno A young man steals a boat to find his brother, but he and his shipmates become shipwrecked on a mysterious island inhabited by a giant sea monster and a slumbering Godzilla. Director: Jun Fukuda After a meteorite unleashes a three-headed beast upon Tokyo, Mothra tries to unite with Godzilla and Rodan to battle the extraterrestrial threat. Director: Ishirô Honda An old friend of a private detective is murdered. The detective, Mike Hammer, will make every effort to find out the killer. At each step he does, there is someone taking advantage of his ... See full summary » Director: Richard T. Heffron Philo Vance, accompanied by his prize-losing Scottish terrier, investigates the locked-room murder of a prominent and much-hated collector whose broken Chinese vase provides an important clue.

Director: Michael Curtiz A 400-foot (122-meter) dinosaur-like beast, awoken from undersea hibernation off the Japanese coast by atomic-bomb testing, attacks Tokyo. Directors: Ishirô Honda, Terry O. Morse Stars: Raymond Burr, Takashi Shimura, Momoko Kôchi Aliens from Planet X request the use of Godzilla and Rodan to fight off King Ghidorah, but have a better use for the three monsters. Director: Ishirô Honda Edit Storyline From Montmartre to the remote French countryside, Maigret encounters the dark side of the human psyche. Yet, he manages to maintain both compassion and a sense of humor as he explores the complex motives that lie behind every crime. 9 February 1992 (UK) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia Michael Gambon takes over the role of Jules Maigret from Richard Harris , who played the role four years earlier. Gambon and Harris would later share another role: that of Albus Dumbledore in the Harry Potter films.

See more » Connections (London) – See all my reviews Filmed I think in Budapest, it has the shabby, faded look of the 50s. Writing, directing and acting are all top-notch. Many respected thespians pass through: Peter Blythe, Edward Petherbridge, Betty Marsden, Toyah Wilcox, Anne Todd - yes, that Anne Todd. Like the Simenon novels, the episodes are thick with atmosphere and explore the seedy realities of life. The characters are not nice middle class people who appreciate classical music and whose children go to good schools. They are a spendthrift playboy in a mouldy chateaux, or a stripper with - not a heart of gold but a few moments of tenderness. They are dentist's assistants, schoolboys, mendacious antique dealers, toyboys, prostitutes. See it if you can. xxxx 29 of 30 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes Order of Georges Simenon Books - OrderOfBooks.com Home | Characters | Authors Order of Georges Simenon Books Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was a Belgian author of crime fiction, best known for his novels featuring his character Jules Maigret. Simenon is the author of close to 200 novels in his native language of French, most of which have been translated into English. Likewise, his novels have been adapted into nearly 200 different film adaptations. Georges got his start writing for the newspaper Gazette de Liege at only 16 years old. During his lifetime, he spent time living in Belgium, France, Canada, the United States and finally in Switzerland – where he died in 1989 of natural causes. Georges Simenon’s first novel was titled Au Pont des Arches and was published in French in 1921 under the pen name of G. Sim.

Below is a list of Georges Simenon’s books in order of when they were released: Publication Order of Inspector Maigret Books The Strange Case of Peter the Lett (1931) The Crime at Lock 14 (1931) Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets (1931) A Face for a Clue (1931) Maigret and the Tavern by the Seine (1932) Maigret and the Death of a Harbour Master (1932) Maigret and the Hotel Majestic (1942) Maigret and the Toy Village (1944) Maigret in New York's Underworld (1946) Maigret and the Old Lady (1950) Maigret and the Burglar's Wife (1951) Maigret and the Man on the Bench (1953) Maigret and the Young Girl (1954) Maigret and the Calame Report (1954) Maigret and the Headless Corpse (1955) Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses (1958) Ma

igret and the Lazy Burglar (1961) Maigret and the Black Sheep (1961) Maigret and the Saturday Caller (1962) Maigret and the Nahour Case (1966) Maigret and the Wine Merchant (1969) Publication Order of Inspector Maigret Collections Maigret's Pipe: Seventeen Stories Publication Order of Standalone Novels Uncle Charles The Strangers in the House (1951) The Trial of Bebe Donge (1952) The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (1953) The Stain on the Snow (1953) The Bottom of the Bottle (1954) The Burial of Monsieur Bouvet (1955) The Little Man from Archangel (1957) The Heart of a Man (1958) Man with the Little Dog (1965) The Man on the Bench in the Barn (1970) The House on Quai Notre Dame (1975) Four Days in a Lifetime (1977) The Girl with a Squint (1978) Uncle Charles

 Has Locked Himself In (1987) The Rules of the Game (1988) The Truth About Bebe Donge (1992) Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books Simenon's Paris Ngaio Marsh Notes: The Strange Case of Peter the Lett was also published as The Case of Peter the Lett and Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett.

The Crime at Lock 14 was also titled Maigret Meets a Milord and Lock 14. The Death of Monsieur Gallet was also published as Maigret Stonewalled. The Crime of Inspector Maigret is also known as Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets. A Battle of Nerves is also known as Maigret’s War of Nerves and A Man’s Head. A Face for a Clue is also known as Maigret and the Concarneau Murders, Maigret and the Yellow Dog and as The Yellow Dog. A Crime in Holland is also known as Maigret in Holland. The Sailor’s Rendezvous is also known as Maigret Answers a Plea. Maigret at the Gai Moulin is also known as At the Gai Moulin. Maigret and the Tavern by the Seine is also known as Guinguette by the Seine, Maigret to the Rescue, A Spot by the Seine and The Bar on the Seine. Maigret Mystified was also published as The Shadow in the Courtyard.

Maigret and the Countess is also known as The Saint-Fiacre Affair, Maigret Goes Home and Maigret on Home Ground. Maigret and the Flemish Shop was also titled as The Flemish Shop. Death of a Harbour Master was also published under the title of Maigret and the Death of a Harbor Master. Liberty Bar is also known as Maigret on the Riviera. The Lock at Charenton is also known as Maigret Sits It Out and Lock No. 1. Maigret and the Hotel Majestic is also titled The Hotel Majestic. To Any Lengths is also known as Maigret and the Fortuneteller. Maigret’s Rival is also known as Inspector Cadaver. Maigret in New York is also known as Maigret in New York’s Underworld. A Summer Holiday is also known as No Vacation for Maigret and Maigret on Holiday. Maigret’s Dead Man is also known as Maigret’s Special Murder. My Friend Maigret was also published under the title of The Methods of Maigret.

Madame Maigret’s Own Case is also known as Madame Maigret’s Friend and The Friend of Madame Maigret. Maigret and the Strangled Stripper is also known as Maigret in Montmartre. Maigret Takes a Room was also published as Maigret Rents a Room. Inspector Maigret and the Killers was also published as Maigret and the Gangsters. Maigret and the Man on the Boulevard was also published as Maigret and the Man on the Bench and The Man on the Boulevard. Inspector Maigret and the Dead Girl is also known as Maigret and the Young Girl. Maigret and the Minister was also published under the title Maigret and the Calame Report. Maigret’s Little Joke is also known as None of Maigret’s Business. Maigret and the Lazy Burglar is also known as Maigret and the Idle Burglar. Maigret and the Dosser is also known as Maigret and the Bum. Maigret and the Ghost was also titled Maigret and the Apparition. The Patience of Maigret was also titled Maigret Bides His Time.

Maigret’s Pickpocket is also known as Maigret and the Pickpocket. Maigret Takes the Waters was re-titled Maigret in Vichy. Maigret and the Flea was also published as Maigret and the Informer. The Fugitive was also published under the title of Account Unsettled. Red Lights is also known as The Hitchhiker. The Hatter’s Ghost was also published as The Hatter’s Phantoms. Window Over the Way is also known as Danger Ashore. The Country Doctor is also known as The Delivery. Dirty Snow is also known as The Stain on the Snow. Georges Simenon Synopsis: In Dirty Snow by Georges Simenon, Frank Friedmaier is a 19 year-old who lives in an occupied country where he gets by as a pimp, thug, thief and a murderer. The novel was originally published as The Stain on the Snow. Maigret (TV Series 1959–1963) - IMDb IMDb There was an error trying to load your rating for this title. Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This!

Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Televisations of the Maigret novels by Georges Simenon. Creator: Visit IMDb Picks Related News a list of 91 titles created 14 May 2012 a list of 290 titles created 13 Feb 2013 a list of 11 titles created 27 Sep 2014 a list of 1048 titles created 11 Mar 2015 a list of 448 titles created 27 Sep 2015 Search for " Maigret " on Amazon.com Connect with IMDb Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. The pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth. Stars: Bruno Cremer, Alexandre Brasseur, Jean-Claude Frissung From Montmartre to the remote French countryside, Maigret encounters the dark side of the human psyche. Yet, he manages to maintain both compassion and a sense of humor as he explores the complex motives that lie behind every crime.

Stars: Michael Gambon, Geoffrey Hutchings, Jack Galloway A serial killer is targeting women in the seedy district of Montmartre. Director: Jean Delannoy Inspector Maigret is traveling to the French countryside to visit his friend, the duchess of Saint-Fiacre. She has received a letter recently stating that she will die soon. A few days ... See full summary » Director: Jean Delannoy Chief Inspector Jules Maigret hunts for a serial killer. Director: Ashley Pearce Maigret's Dead Man (TV Movie 2016) Crime | Drama | Mystery Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld. Director: Jon East The trials of the British aristocratic Bellamy family and their household staff. Stars: Gordon Jackson, David Langton, Jean Marsh The life of the Larkin family, farmers in Kent. Stars: David Jason, Pam Ferris, Stephanie Ralph Jules Maigret, a meticulous Parisian police detective, is a famous literary character. In this film adaptation of his stories, he's trying to solve a murder of a friend, a P.I. who was looking into an industrialist and his family.

Director: Paul Lynch 12 April 1959 (UK) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Trivia Simenon's wife, who took over his busniess affairs, had it wrtitten into the BBC contract that the series could only be shown once and all copies destroyed afterwards. This is the reason only a couple of episodes survive. When Simenon found out about it later he could only ask 'why?' See more » Connections (France) – See all my reviews When I was at the BBC in the 1990's I asked the library in Windmill Road to send up the episodes they had for viewing prior to a possible Video release. They said they had very few surviving episodes but sent what they had including a Christmas special. As I watched all the quality of this series was relived. Now that The Age of Kings has been retrieved and released on DVD this series would have been next on my wish list. It was superb, captured the atmosphere of Simenon's Paris perfectly with its Citroen Tractions, cobbled streets and bistros. The title sequence with Rupert Davies striking a match on a wall to light his pipe to the music of Ron Grainer was superb.

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Question: What was the first name of Inspector Maigret, a character created by George Simenon?
Answer: Jules