Georges Simenon

• Oct-2026
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An unidentified body, ruthless gangsters on the rampage, and Maigret's authority sabotaged -- in this breakneck thriller, the inspector would rather risk his life than lose face.When a group of American gangsters carry out a brazen hit on Parisian so...

• Jun-2026
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Brooding and propulsive, Georges Simenon's indictment of American suburbia follows a Connecticut lawyer who, after years of jealousy and rage, finally tears down the facade of his perfect life.Donald Dodd has always envied Ray Sanders. A Madison Aven...

• May-2026
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A dark, psychological tale of deadly obsession, in a masterful new translation 'My dear Judge, I would like one man, just one, to understand me. And I really hope that man can be you.' In a small town in western France, Dr Charles Alavo...

• Nov-2025
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In The Misty Harbor, a missing harbormaster turns up, only to be murdered on his first night home, in another captivating tale featuring Georges Simenon's intrepid Inspector Maigret.A man, clad in brand-new clothes with no identification, is found on...

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• Sep-2022
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"Dark, disturbing . . . Simenon discovered something fundamental about the soul." -- The GuardianA string of murders has the small French town of La Rochelle in its grip. The victims, all elderly women, have been found strangled with cello string --...

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• Mar-2019
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'Read him at your peril, avoid him at your loss' Sunday TimesCaptain Lannec has finally managed to buy his own ship with the financial help of his in-laws, the Pitards - and they've never let him forget it. When his temperamental wife Mathilde i...

• Nov-2018
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"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his brilliance at absorbing us obsessively in his stories." -- The GuardianIn this delightful holiday-themed...

• Nov-2017
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Georges Simenon (13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. A prolific author who published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, Simenon is bes tknown as the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret....

• Nov-2016
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In this brilliant new translation of Georges Simenon's classic novel, a young man descends into a brutal world of crime. "And always the dirty snow, the heaps of snow that look rotten, with black patches and embedded garbage ... unable to cover th...

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• Jun-2015
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During his first holiday on the island of Porquerolles Dr Mahe caught a glimpse of something irresistible. As the memory continues to haunt him, he falls prey to a delusion that may offer an escape from his conventional existence - or may destroy him...

• Nov-2014
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The basis for the1947 French film noir classic Panique , which was re-released in January 2017 Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution and betrayal One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone, nothing but soft, flaccid m...

• Nov-2011
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Restored to print for the first time in more than forty years, The President was hailed by the New York Times as a "tour de force"At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement -- self exile -- on the Normandy coast, writing his a...

• Nov-2011
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"The Widow" is the story of two outcasts and their fatal encounter. One is the widow herself, Tati. Still young, she's never had an easy time of it, but she's not the kind to complain. Tati lives with her father-in-law on the family farm, putting up ...

• Oct-2011
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For forty years Charles Alavoine has sleepwalked through his life. Growing up as a good boy in the grip of a domineering mother, he trains as a doctor, marries, opens a medical practice in a quiet country town, and settles into an existence of impecc...

• Jul-2011
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Against all expectations Marcel Féron has made a "normal" life in a bucolic French suburb in the Ardennes. But on May 10, 1940, as Nazi tanks approach, this timid, happy man must abandon his home and confront the "Fate" that he has secretly awaited...

• Jul-2010
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Pedigree is Georges Simenon's longest, most unlikely, and most adventurous novel, the book that is increasingly seen to lie at the heart of his outsize achievement as a chronicler of modern self and society. In the early 1940s, Simenon began work on ...

• Mar-2007
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On the outskirts of Paris, a prostitute is found murdered in a vacant lot. In a seedy apartment house nearby lives pasty, fat Mr. Hire. Mr. Hire, who earns his living through a petty postal scam, is a convicted pornographer, a peeping Tom, and, once ...

• Mar-2007
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Based on his own experiences, Georges Simenon tells of a period in his youth when he was befriended by three men. Unbeknownst to him, these three would go on to commit a series of wholly reprehensible crimes. Yet it was only by chance that these trav...

• Oct-2006
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"A writer who, more than any other crime novelist, combined a high literary reputation with popular appeal." -- P. D. JamesCaught in a spiral of bitter seclusion and drinking since his wife abandoned him and their newborn child eighteen years ago, H...

• Jul-2006
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It is Friday evening before Labor Day weekend. Americans are hitting the highways in droves; the radio crackles with warnings of traffic jams and crashed cars. Steve Hogan and his wife, Nancy, have a long drive ahead from New York City to Maine, wher...

• Jul-2005
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A private confession leads an ordinary Dutchman to abandon his family for a life on the run in Georges Simenon's existentialist masterpiece.Kees Popinga has always played by society's rules. A dutiful husband and father, he owns a house in a nice nei...

• Sep-2004
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Newly translated for this edition.

A young Frenchman, Joseph Timar, travels to Gabon carrying a letter of introduction from an influential uncle. He wants work experience; he wants to see the world. But in the oppressive heat and glare of the ...

• Sep-2003
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Nineteen-year-old Frank Friedmaier lives in a country under occupation. Most people struggle to get by; Frank takes it easy in his mother's whorehouse, which caters to members of the occupying forces. But Frank is restless. He is a pimp, a thug, a...

• Sep-2003
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An actor, recently divorced, at loose ends in New York; a woman, no less lonely, perhaps even more desperate than the man: they meet by chance in an all-night diner and are drawn to each other on the spot. Roaming the city streets, hitting its late-n...

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• Sep-1991
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Pierre Chave--assistant stage manager at an amateur theater in Brussels--must assert his influence when two anarchists who advocate violence threaten to take over the group of Parisian anarchists of which Chave is a member...

• Apr-1991
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After the death of Oscar Donadieu, a wealthy shipbuilder and tyrannical patriarch, his family--oldest son Michel, wife, Eva, and daughter Martine--begins to disintegrate, a process enhanced by the arrival of ambitious, angry Phillipe Dargens...

• May-1990
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• Sep-1989
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Celita is a stripper at the Monico, a nightclub in Cannes, as well as the long-standing mistress of Monsieur Leon, the nightclub's owner. She enjoyed her struggle to win him away from his wife, Madame Florence, but when a new stripper named Maud beco...

• Jun-1989
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• Nov-1988
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Walter J. Higgins has all the right requirements to be admitted into the local country club, but when he is denied membership, his childhood wounds and painful secrets haunt him again, and he seeks to alleviate his suffering through revenge...

• Oct-1987
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Upon returning home, Charles Dupenn, a humble bookkeeper, locks himself in the attic and will not respond to his wife or his daughters, who remain downstairs speculating on what might be happening as they cast anxious glances at the ceiling...

• Apr-1987
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Homeless, penniless, and wanted for a a crime in his native Poland, Stan wanders through Europe, only to return to Paris with one thing to sell--his inside knowledge of the workings of a notorious gang...

• Oct-1986
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The story of the gradual spiritual disintegration of the doctor of a small Dutch town who has murdered his wife and her lover....

• Apr-1986
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• Sep-1985
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When Petit Louis, who divides his time between petty crime and profitable affairs with lonely, middle-aged women, is arrested on a charge of murder, this callow punk unexpectedly takes on the entire system of justice...

• May-1985
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"The Blue Room is a wondrous achievement, brief, inexorable, pared to, and agonizingly close to, the bone, and utterly compelling; in short, a true and luminous work of art." -- John BanvilleHe felt no resentment toward Andrée for biting his lip. I...

• May-1985
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Why are Emile and Marguerite Bouin still married? They cannot stand each other. This is evident from the moment we meet them, isolated and wordless before a beautiful fire. Their only correspondence is an occasional invective jotted on a scrap of pap...

• May-1985
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Contesting bitterly for the sexual favors of their Spanish maid, a father and son share the same house and table with their unloved and unbearably isolated mother, who seeks the ever-diminishing solace of alcohol. Only the daughter, involved in a lov...

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• Sep-1984
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After strangling his mistress, Jules Maletras, a wealthy retired entrepreneur, finds himself haunted by his devastated self-image, his past, and his crime as he attempts to cover his tracks and return to normal life...

• Oct-1983
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After his shady business deal in Brussels fails and his gorgeous companion Sylvie Baron leaves him for an Antwerp shipowner nicknamed Van der Boomp, Turkish businessman Elias Nagear, stricken ill and consumed with jealousy, kills Van der Boomp...

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A powerful study in guilt and obsession, this is the portrait of a man destroyed by the consequences of a sexual bondage....

• Apr-1977
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Monsieur Monde is a successful middle-aged businessman in Paris. One morning he walks out on his life, leaving his wife asleep in bed, leaving everything.

Not long after, he surfaces on the Riviera, keeping company with drunks, whores and pimp...

• Feb-1977
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• 1972
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"A writer as comfortable with reality as with fiction, with passion as with reason." -- John Le CarréIn the final novel featuring Inspector Maigret, the famous detective reaches a pivotal moment in his careerMaigret is a few years short of his reti...

• 1971
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When a prominent figure from the Paris restaurant world turns up dead, Inspector Maigret is on the case The body of a well-known Parisian restaurateur turns up on Avenue Junot in Montmartre, having seemingly been killed elsewhere. Inspector Maigre...

• 1971
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When a body is found in Paris, nothing is as it seems, and Maigret must delve into the victim's mysterious past to discover who could have killed him Inspector Maigret is called to action after a man who appears to be an elderly, socially isol...

• Mar-1970
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Dust jacket art by Ken Braren. Translated by Moura Budberg. The story of a husband and wife, lover and mistress and their confrontation with truth in a single night which cataclysmically change a man's whole life....

• 1970
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When an old woman contacts Maigret, sure she's about to be killed, Maigret has no reason to believe her -- other than his intuition A kind but seemingly paranoid old lady turns to Inspector Maigret for help, believing someone has been in her a...

• 1970
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Investigating the murder of one of Paris's elite, the detective Maigret finds the list of suspects is longer than anyone could have imagined When a wealthy wine merchant is shot and killed in Paris, Inspector Maigret must investigate a long li...

• 1969
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When a dinner between Inspector Maigret and friends ends abruptly at the discovery of a body, the detective must plumb the darker side of human nature to discover what motivates a killer Maigret and wife have always enjoyed their occasional dinner...

• 1968
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When a mysterious letter writer warns Inspector Maigret that a murder is imminent, Maigret must trace the messages back to their source before it is too late When a series of letters, penned on expensive stationery, arrives at Maigret's desk c...

• 1968
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When his relaxing vacation is interrupted by a small-town murder, Inspector Maigret can't resist lending his investigative powers to the case Inspector Maigret and his wife take a much needed holiday to Vichy, where they quickly become used to...

• 1968
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When a familiar face from Maigret's past brings him word of a mysterious killing, the Inspector jumps on the case When a long lost friend pays a visit to Maigret's office, he is shocked to learn that the man's roommate has been murdere...

• 1967
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When a gambler is discovered dead in his home, a coincidence at the scene sends Inspector Maigret down a twisted path of secrets and lies in search of a killer Maigret receives an urgent call in the middle of the night from a doctor friend who say...

• 1967
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When Inspector Maigret's wallet and badge are stolen on a bus, it sets off a chain of events culminating in a grisly murder case A pickpocket steals Maigret's wallet only to contact him the following day, returning the stolen items on the ...

• Apr-1965
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Here Simenon analyzes the effect of a stroke on a man in the prime of his life. Rene Maugras has risen from obscurity to publisher of a highly influential Paris newspaper. Then suddenly he finds himself in a Paris hospital, speechless and paralyzed, ...

• 1965
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Inspector Maigret is working on connecting an old nemesis to a string of robberies, but when the man is found dead, he must turn instead to hunting down his killer. Maigret finds himself back on the Rue des Acacias just ten days after cracking ano...

• 1964
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When a colleague is shot under mysterious circumstances, Inspector Maigret must work fast to uncover the truth During an undercover case, Inspector Maigret's colleague Lognon is shot and rushed to surgery. The attack took place in a room he was sh...

• 1964
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When suspicion turns on Inspector Maigret for a crime he did not commit, he must use every investigative tool in his arsenal to clear his name. For the first time in his career, Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Chief Commissioner'...

• 1963
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When a beggar is pulled from the River Seine, having been badly beaten, Inspector Maigret must investigate the man to uncover his attacker. While sleeping under the Pont Marie bridge, a homeless man known as Doc is viciously beaten and thrown into...

• 1963
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When a well-liked nightclub owner turns up dead in a cemetery, Inspector Maigret must track down the killer -- despite a lack of suspects. During a quiet spell in June, Maigret is called to investigate the disappearance of a reputable businessman,...

• 1962
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When he is tasked with solving a seemingly motiveless murder, Inspector Maigret must rely on his famous intuition to discover the truth A retired manufacturer is found murdered with his own pistol in his favorite armchair, shattering the tranquili...

• 1962
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Maigret is visited by a troubled man and asks him to keep in touch, hoping to curtail his criminal impulses -- but when the man disappears, Maigret must investigate a crime that may or may not have occurred When Maigret returns home at the end of ...

• 1961
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During a high-profile hunt for the latest criminal gang to hit Paris, Maigret is determined to track down the murderer of a quiet crook whom he cannot help but respect When the body of Honoré Cuendot, an old burglar acquaintance of Maigret's, is ...

• 1960
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When an innocent young man is accused of murder, Maigret is forced to question the blind justice of the law In this thrilling courtroom drama, inspector Maigret comes to the defense of Gaston Meurant, a quiet Parisian picture framer accused of sli...

• 1960
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When a wealthy aristocrat is found murdered in his home, Inspector Maigret must navigate a high-stakes case in the moneyed world of Paris's upper crust Maigret is called to the home of Armand de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected diplomat who has b...

• 1959
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When the head of a powerful Parisian family business is murdered in his bed, Maigret must pick apart the family's darkest secrets to reveal the truth "The curious thing was that there seemed to be no grief here, only a strange dejection, a...

• 1959
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At a lavish dinner party, Inspector Maigret recounts the tale of an old case that has haunted him for years At one of his friends' frequent dinner parties, Maigret shares the story of a case from a few years back that haunts him to this day, in wh...

• 1958
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When two people turn up dead at the same hotel mere hours apart, Maigret suspects it is no coincidence When multi-millionaire David Ward is found dead in the same hotel as a countess who attempted suicide only hours earlier, Maigret presumes that ...

• 1958
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Inspector Maigret finds himself caught in the middle of a husband and wife duo's case of "he said/she said" -- with murderous consequences An unusually quiet day for Inspector Maigret at the Quai des Orfèvres is disturbed by a visit from mild-man...

• 1957
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Convinced that he needs a vacation, Maigret resolves to take two weeks off -- but when a scandalous murder makes headlines, he can't help but get involved Maigret is given two weeks off work and decides to spend them in Paris with Madame Maigret, ...

• 1956
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Was Maigret himself guilty? The question haunted the great French detective as for the first time he had to examine not only a baffling list of suspects but his own conscience in seeking the killer of a man everyone hated, including Maigret himself. ...

• 1955
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When a public tragedy threatens to expose a scandal within the Paris government, the Minister of Public Works calls in a favor to Maigret A public project has collapsed and resulted in the death of 128 children after a report warning officials abo...

• 1955
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A man's dismembered body is found in a canal, and only Maigret can uncover the killer When a man's headless body is discovered in Paris's Saint-Martin Canal, Maigret is quick to answer the call. It is in this very neighborhood that he meets a stra...

• 1955
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With a serial killer on the loose in Paris, Maigret must outsmart the culprit before he can strike again. The inspiration for ITV's feature-length adaptation starring Rowan Atkinson. Detective Chief Inspector Maigret is known for his infallible in...

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• 1954
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When the body of a young girl is found in a Montmartre park, Maigret must team up with a rival investigator to bring her killer to justice. Maigret and fellow inspector Lognon clash in their investigations into the murder of an unknown young woman...

• 1954
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Inspector Maigret becomes entangled in the dramas of a small town on his quest to solve the murder of their former postmistress Maigret is called from his usual duties in Paris to investigate a murder in a small village located close to La Rochell...

• 1953
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Maigret stumbles upon a series of murders in Fontenay-le-Comte while visiting an old school friend On his way home from a conference, Maigret stops to visit an old school friend in Fontenay-le-Comte. A man in the same train car introduces himself ...

• 1953
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Inspector Maigret must untangle the web of lies left behind by a murdered man whose family didn't know him as well as they thought When a man is found stabbed to death in an alley off Boulevard Saint-Martin, his identity card shows a workplace tha...

• 1953
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When a young woman with a dark past is found dead on the streets of Paris, Inspector Maigret is on the case A young woman named Lulu, who has a history of brushes with the law and once lived on the streets of the 18th arrondissement, is found murd...

• 1952
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Inspector Maigret goes up against a group of American gangsters and finds he just might have met his match In Maigret's latest adventure, the Inspector learns that his hapless colleague Lognon is being menaced by some notorious American mobsters,...

• 1952
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When Inspector Maigret's .45 revolver is stolen from his home, he becomes embroiled in a murder in which the gun may have played a deadly role Maigret is the victim of a burglary in which the .45 revolver he had received as a gift from the FBI is ...

• 1951
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A visit from a tall, thin woman he arrested many years ago -- now married to a hapless burglar -- leads Maigret on a tortuous investigation in which he struggles with a formidable suspect A face from Maigret's past reappears to tell him about ...

• 1951
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When a Montmarte stripper overhears a plot to murder a countess, Inspector Maigret is on the case Arlette, a beautiful young dancer at Picratt's in Montmartre, reports to her local police station that she overheard two men at her club talking abo...

• 1951
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When a man is killed outside a Parisian boarding house, Inspector Maigret moves in to get to the bottom of it While keeping watch outside Mademoiselle Clément's boarding house to await a suspect in a local bar robbery, a man named Janvier is shot...

• 1951
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A fictional autobiography of Maigret, Georges Simenon's brilliant detective In this make-believe memoir, Maigret recounts a meeting with the author himself. The account starts with the arrival of Georges Sim, as he is called here, at the Paris Po...

• 1950
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Madame Maigret's trip to the dentist brings surprising insight to a baffling case. On rue de Turenne, two human teeth are found in the furnace of a Flemish bookbinder, who is quickly taken into custody. Blood stains a blue suit hanging in the suspec...

• 1950
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Inspector Maigret takes a case from a lively old widow whose maid has been poisoned The inexplicable murder of the wealthy Valentine Besson's maid leads the older woman to believe that she herself was the intended target. Inspector Maigret undert...

• 1949
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In Arizona on a study tour of America, Inspector Maigret observes a day in the life of a local coroner and becomes absorbed in a young girl's murder On his travels through the U.S., Maigret stops in Tucson, Arizona at the guidance of his FBI frie...

• 1949
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When a Paris musician witnesses an altercation that may have been a murder, the young Inspector Maigret becomes embroiled in his first case A musician walking home along the Rue Chaptal in the early hours of the morning sees a panic-stricken woman...

• 1949
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Inspector Maigret investigates the murder of a small-time crook on a Mediterranean island While Inspector Pyke of Scotland Yard is staying with Maigret to observe his methods, Maigret receives word of a murder in the Midi on the island of Porquero...

• 1948
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After receiving a series of mysterious calls from a man who later turns up dead, Inspector Maigret must plunge into the murky Parisian underworld to solve the case A man calls Maigret from a cafe and asks for police protection, saying he's being ...

• 1948
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While on holiday, Inspector Maigret is drawn into the murder of a teenage girl and subsequent disappearance of her brother and must confront an evil that is hidden in plain sight During their holidays in Sables-d'Olonne, Maigret's wife is hospita...

• 1947
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When the son of a wealthy businessman fears for his father's life, Maigret is plucked from retirement to visit New York on an unlikely quest Aged 56 and in his first year of retirement at Meung-sur-Loire, Maigret is surprised with a visit by Jean,...

• 1947
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Maigret is drawn out of retirement when a young woman is found dead in the Seine and her grandmother turns up at his door. The twenty-sixth novel in the new Penguin Maigret series. Two years into his retirement at Meung-sur-Loire, Maigret has yet ...

• Jan-1944
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• 1943
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Maigret dismantles an intricate network of lies stretching from Paris to Nice in this page-turning mystery "Mechanically, he had put his pince-nez down on the blotter and looked at it there with his large, short-sighted eyes. It is at that moment ...

• 1943
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A story of love and obsession featuring a most memorable femme fatale, starring the intrepid Inspector Maigret Peg Leg Lapie, a crusty old sailor, is found mysteriously murdered in a most incongruous setting: a picturesque cottage near Paris, whe...

• 1943
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A battle of wills between Inspector Maigret and an adversary from the past When a friend's brother-in-law is accused of murdering his daughter's lover, Maigret sets out for a small French town to help and upon arrival is plunged into an atmosphere...

• 1942
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In The Hotel Majestic, Maigret investigates the murder of Mrs. Clark, the wife of a wealthy American industrialist, whose strangled body is found in the basement of an upscale hotel near the Champs-Elysees. Maigret's inquiries take him from the endle...

• 1942
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A moving novel about the destructive power of greed starring the unrivaled Inspector Maigret "Poor Cécile! And yet she was still young. Maigret had seen her papers: barely twenty-eight years old. But it would be difficult to look more like an old...

• 1942
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Exiled from Paris, Maigret discovers some disturbing secrets in a sleepy coastal town "A short, sprightly man appeared in the doorway, looked left and right, and went back into the passage. A moment later, the improbable happened. The little man r...

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• 1934
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Maigret shrugged his shoulders, buried his hands in his pockets and went off without answering. He had just spent one of the most wretched days in his life. For hours, in his corner he had felt old and feeble, without idea or incentive. But now a tin...

• 1933
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Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realised that they were not important. Whatever roared by like this along the road was not part of the landscape. ... What really counted was the lock, the hooting of the tugs, t...

• 1932
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A tense, unforgettable Inspector Maigret mystery from Georges Simenon "He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep -- was it really sleep? -- his sighs, and his sobbing. Then the two dangling legs, the patent-leather shoes and hand-knitt...

• 1932
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Maigret's quest to solve a murder in a quiet village leads him to the town's most unlikely suspect. The tidal regularity of life in a quiet village on the English Channel is abruptly broken the local harbor-master -- an when innocent, perfectly harm...

• 1932
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A chilling Inspector Maigret mystery set on the Belgian border "She wasn't an ordinary supplicant. She didn't lower her eyes. There was nothing humble about her bearing. She spoke frankly, looking straight ahead, as if to claim what was ri...

• 1932
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During a final visit to the cell of condemned man Jean Lenoir, Inspector Maigret picks up a negligently dropped remark about an unsolved--in fact, unreported--murder committed in Paris six years before. It seems Lenoir and his partner, Victor, witnes...

• 1932
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Maigret's past comes to life in this evocative novel, set in the Inspector's hometown "Maigret savoured the sensations of his youth again: the cold, stinging eyes, frozen fingertips, an aftertaste of coffee. Then, stepping inside the church, a bla...

• 1932
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A gripping domestic tragedy starring Inspector Maigret and set in Simenon's very own neighborhood "One by one the lighted windows went dark. The silhouette of the dead man could still be seen through the frosted glass like a Chinese shadow puppet....

• 1932
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Inspector Maigret loses himself in coastal luxury -- and danger -- in this devastating mystery set on the French Riviera "It had a smell of holidays. The previous evening, in Cannes Harbour, with the setting sun, had also had the smell of holidays...

• 1931
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Inspector Maigret finds himself tangled up in a dreadful death, in Georges Simenon's haunting tale about the lengths to which people will go to escape from guilt While in Brussels on police business, Inspector Jules Maigret witnesses a strange act...

• 1931
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A gripping mystery from Georges Simenon in which Inspector Maigret must go up against small town suspicion -- and revenge In a small, seaside town in the northwest of France, the local wine dealer is wounded by a gunshot while returning home drunk...

• 1931
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A sensational tale of deceit and back-stabbing in an isolated community in which only Inspector Maigret can intervene "She came forward, the outlines of her figure blurred in the half-light....'I gather you wish to talk to me, Inspector...but firs...

• 1931
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The city of Simenon's youth comes to life in this disturbing Inspector Maigret mystery set in Liège "In the darkness, the main room is as vast as a cathedral. A great empty space. Some warmth is still seeps from the radiators. Delfosse strike...

• 1931
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HUMAN APPETITES CLASH WITH SMALL-TOWN RESPECTABILITY WHEN A TEACHER IN A PRIM DUTCH VILLAGE IS MURDERED. ON HIS LATEST CASE, Maigret finds himself in the town of Delfzijl investigating the murder of a teacher. He is presented with two clues -- a sai...

• 1931
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An atmospheric Inspector Maigret mystery set in the bustling streets of Paris "Slowly the Czech was becoming animated, but in a muted way, so typical of the man. Maigret now noticed his hands, which were long, surprisingly white and dotted with fr...

• 1931
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In this gripping novel set in an insular fishing community, Inspector Maigret must navigate an impenetrable subculture to solve a murder "It was indeed a photograph, a picture of a woman. But the face was completely hidden, scribbled all over in r...

• 1930
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A devastating tale of misfortune, betrayal, and the weakness of family ties, newly translated for the Inspector Maigret series In the third Maigret mystery, the circumstances of Monsieur Gallet's death all seem fake: the name he was traveling unde...

• 1930
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In Simenon's iconic first novel featuring Inspector Maigret, the laconic detective is taken from grimy bars to luxury hotels as he traces a fraudster's true identity Inspector Jules Maigret, a taciturn detective and commissaire of the Paris Brigad...

• 1930
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A tragic tale of lost identity, and a mystery that only Inspector Maigret can solve "What was the woman doing here? In a stable, wearing pearl earrings, her stylish bracelet and white buckskin shoes! She must have been alive when she got there bec...

'For personal reasons, or for reasons I don't know myself, I began feeling old, and I began keeping notebooks. I was nearing the age of sixty'Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties ...