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Frank Askin, Astronaut einer privaten Firma, verdächtigt seinen Boss, ein Zeitreisender zu sein. Dieser ist ein Konkurrent der Galaktischen Union, weswegen Sherlock Holmes den Auftrag erhält, ihm auf den Zahn zu fühlen. Dabei ist ihm Dr. Watson äußerst nützlich, gerät aber in große Gefahr.

Bendik Budde ist tot! Der selbsternannte Deichgraf von Kampen galt als unantastbar. Schon die erste Inspektion von Leiche und Fundort gibt Rätsel auf, denn Budde starb nicht in diesem Teich. Die Kripo Wattenmeer nimmt die Ermittlungen auf und sucht Zeugen der Tat. Hat der Täter sich so gut getarnt, dass er nicht zu finden ist?

Mr. Grant Munro ist in großer Sorge. Erst kürzlich ist er gemeinsam mit seiner Ehefrau Effie in die Nähe des englischen Städtchens Norbury gezogen. Als Munro erfährt, dass es sich dabei um das berüchtigte Gilligan-Haus handelt, in dem noch immer der Geist der grausam ermordeten Lady Martha Gilligan umgehen soll, nimmt er die Warnungen zunächst nicht ernst. Doch dann fängt Effie plötzlich an zu schlafwandeln und nachts das unheimliche Haus aufzusuchen.

Beim Diebstahl einer wertvollen Reliquie verweisen die Indizien auf niemand anderen als Holmes selbst. Ist der geniale Detektiv womöglich dem Wahnsinn verfallen? Holmes erhofft sich Hilfe von einem jungen Wiener Arzt und bekommt sie - wenn auch auf andere Weise als gedacht...

Beim Staatsbesuch eines indischen Maharadschas in London kommt es zu einem Zwischenfall: Der in einem Reisekäfig mitgebrachte Königstiger bricht aus und tötet einen Minister. Sherlock Holmes wird beauftragt, die Hintergründe zu untersuchen.

Als der abgesetzte König Ludwig II. von Bayern unter mysteriösen Umständen ums Leben kommt, reisen Sherlock Holmes und Dr. Watson nach München. Sie sollen die Hintergründe des mutmaßlichen Selbstmordes des angeblich geisteskranken Monarchen untersuchen.

Walter Brennan is convinced someone is trying to poison him. His family thinks he’s paranoid. His doctor says he’s delusional. But Walter is saving evidence. When the powerful businessman quietly rewrites his will—cutting out his children and leaving his $80 million estate to his much younger live-in caregiver—his desperate daughter hires private investigator Harry Starke to find out what’s really going on.

Somewhere in Liège, Jean Chabot and René Delfrosse hide out in the cellar of a seedy bar. Their plan to rob the establishment goes awry when, by the light of a match, they see the dead body of a man whom they had seen only hours before. They flee in horror. When the two boys are accused of the murder, their friendship is put to the test, and seemingly irrelevant social differences threaten their friendship and their freedom.

Emile Ducrau, the kingpin of a small town on the outskirts of Paris, is stabbed and left for dead in the harbor one night. When he’s pulled from the water and miraculously revived, he enlists the help of Maigret to figure out who was behind the attempted murder. As Maigret sorts through the complex web of deceit, abuse, money, and power that darken Emile’s many dealings in the town, he must also deal with the specter of his own looming retirement.

It’s been seventeen hours of interrogation, yet Carl Andersen’s air of elegance remains unruffled. Inspector Maigret is bewildered by the behavior exhibited by the only probable suspect of the case at Three Widows Crossroads, the location of Carl’s isolated mansion where he lives with his sister Else. The Saturday evening prior, Carl and Else go to sleep, after Carl has locked her away in her bedroom as usual—a curious habit, notes Maigret, but stranger things soon arise.

A man, clad in brand-new clothes with no identification, is found on the streets of Paris. Mute, he also has a bullet hole in his head that has been perfectly patched up—altogether a strange fellow, yet affable. His maid Julie soon turns up to claim him; he is Captain Yves Joris, the harbormaster at Ouistreham. Maigret accompanies the pair safely back home, but the next morning, the captain dies, poisoned. Maigret decides to stay, pacing the thickly fog-obscured docks, striking up conversations with busy figures.

On the eve of his death, a condemned man remembers a crime he witnessed years before. With only the name of a bar to direct him, Maigret joins a party of summering revelers who have something to do with the unsolved disappearance—but what, exactly? Descending into the sleazy underside of respectable Parisian life, Maigret investigates and the forgotten crime comes to light.

Georges Simenon’s Maigret arrives in Antibes on the French Riviera tasked with discreetly solving the murder of one Mr. Brown, stabbed in the back as he returned to the house of his mistress and her mother. As Maigret investigates, he finds himself drawn to the seedy dive bar frequented by the late Mr. Brown, and strangely absorbed in his ruminations on the many secret lives of this cipher of a man. Is Maigret simply distracted by the sun, surf, and vacationers, or is there something else about the case that is preoccupying him?

In a run-down Paris suburb, housebound widow Juliette Boynet is strangled. For Inspector Maigret, this murder hits home more than most: he’s well acquainted with Juliette’s live-in carer, her selfless niece Cécile. For months, the frightened young woman has complained of an unseen nocturnal intruder. And less than twenty-four hours after her aunt’s murder, Cécile is also found dead. She didn’t have an overactive imagination after all, Maigret reflects guiltily.

An evocative tale from Georges Simenon that unearths the inspector’s past: Maigret finds an anonymous note predicting a crime in his hometown. This handwritten note is deposited at the headquarters of the Police Judiciaire in Paris. Maigret sets off for the village, having been there last for his father’s funeral.

In The Flemish House, Maigret arrives in the rainy, flood-prone town of Givet on the Belgian border to solve the case of a missing young woman. He has been hired by the wealthy Peeters family, who are suspected of being responsible, to clear their name. As he plumbs the mysteries, prejudices, and hidden dramas of this town caught between two worlds, he has to decide whether there was foul play involved in the vanishing of the young woman, or if she has simply been chased away by the oppressive air of this benighted and fraught no-man’s-land.

A French professor is staying in a coastal Dutch town while on a lecture tour—but when his host is murdered, he’s held for questioning as the prime suspect. Maigret’s assistance is requested, so he travels to the northeast of Holland, where he meets the attendees of a small private gathering the week before: Beetje, the coquettish daughter of a local farmer; Madame Popinga, the victim’s wife; Any Van Elst, her sister and a prospective lawyer; and Cornelius, a student at the Naval College; among a few others.

When Maigret’s police officer nephew is framed for a gangland murder, the former chief inspector must swap his countryside retirement for his old stomping ground: Paris’s seamy underworld. Fueled by regular tipples and his omnipresent pipe, he goes up against a criminal enterprise whose leader, a police informant, considers himself untouchable. Can Maigret’s forensic but off-the-books investigation save his nephew from prison—and uphold his own legacy as a peerless maverick for justice?

Late at night in a small seaside town, not a single light is on, and everyone is asleep. Or almost everyone: a man, drunk, departs for home after another evening at a hotel bar, where he and a few others regularly gather. Suddenly, he collapses—struck by a gunshot. The victim turns out to be the town’s most successful wine dealer, and the event soon leads to a series of other curiosities: poisoned drinks at the bar, another man found missing, and a dirty yellow dog haunting the neighborhood, accompanied by large, unfamiliar boot tracks.

When Detective Chief Inspector Maigret receives notice from Interpol that Pietr the Latvian, an infamous con man, is on his way to Paris, he rushes to intercept him at the train station. But when he arrives he is confounded to find two men who fit the description of the wanted man. One is alive, the other dead.