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A moody, rain-swept mystery from Georges Simenon that unfolds in a border town haunted by floods and deep secrets. 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...

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.

A gripping novel that sees Maigret brought out of his peaceful retirement. 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...

An eerie mystery in which a local wine dealer is shot and a strange yellow dog starts to circle the town—Inspector Maigret must navigate small-town dynamics to find the elusive culprit. Late at night in a small seaside town, not a single light is on, and everyone is asleep. Or almost everyone...

In this first installment in Georges Simenon’s legendary Inspector Maigret series, M. Maigret hunts down an elusive and notorious confidence man, but finds that identifying him is a game of doubles, intrigue, and hidden crimes. When Detective Chief Inspector Maigret receives notice from...

Suddenly witness to a man’s dreadful death, Inspector Maigret finds himself faced with a series of sordid events that drove the man to despair in this haunting tale of guilt and tragedy. While stopped at a railway station on the northern edge of Holland, Inspector Maigret catches sight of a...

In a dimly lit apartment building, where shadowy figures come and go, a man has been killed in Georges Simenon’s The Shadow Puppet. On the dimly lit Place des Vosges, Maigret hears the sound of a woman in distress. But this is no crime; she is giving birth in a room above. The lights of the...

A man on the run, a madman on the loose terrorizing the town, and Maigret on the case—a thrilling, nerve-racking mystery from Georges Simenon. The Madman of Bergerac finds Maigret on the train to Bordeaux trying to sleep, to no avail. A man in the bunk above is tossing and turning, perhaps...

When a man traveling abroad is murdered in his hotel room, Inspector Maigret must sift through the misdirection and betrayal to find the truth hidden beneath. A Monsieur Gallet has been found dead—murdered—in his hotel room, in a small town outside of Paris. In Georges Simenon’s The Late...

A man escapes out of the High Surveillance wing of the most infamous penitentiary in Paris. Members of the Police Judiciaire see him, but no one moves a muscle. In fact, it’s part of a daring plan concocted by Inspector Maigret, who thinks Joseph Heurtin may not be guilty of the murder of Madame Henderson and her maid—despite Maigret’s having convicted Joseph himself months before. Once on the loose, Joseph is the subject of careful surveillance: will the accused return to his ring of criminal masterminds, or is he indeed as unknowing as he maintained in every interrogation?

A glamorous woman suddenly turns up dead in the middle of nowhere in a tragic, mysterious puzzle that only Georges Simenon’s legendary detective can solve. It’s just another slow, rainy day on a French canal, until the discovery of a woman’s body disrupts the placid scene. Inspector...

A fishing boat docks at a port in Normandy—and hours later its captain is floating in the harbor, strangled to death. When Inspector Maigret arrives, at the behest of his old school friend, he finds the Océan’s crew will say nary a word about what transpired; instead, they speak only of the evil eye, a curse on the vessel they believe began even before they sailed. Pierre Le Clinche, a young wireless operator on board the ship who had markedly strained relations with the captain, is arrested for foul play.

Maugras, con la lucidità di una solitudine interiore spogliata da ogni maschera, fa un bilancio impietoso della propria esistenza, interrogandosi sul senso di quanto hanno fatto lui e quelli come lui per diventare ciò che sono. Soprattutto si interroga sull'essere che gli sta accanto da anni: sua moglie Lina, che per lui è diventata quasi un'estranea, e che sta sprofondando nell'alcolismo.

Enthält: Maigret macht Ferien (28. Fall) / Maigret und sein Toter (29. Fall) / Maigrets erste Untersuchung (30. Fall) / Mein Freund Maigret (31. Fall) / Maigret in Arizona (32. Fall) / Maigret und die alte Dame (33. Fall) / Madame Maigrets Freundin (34. Fall). Im 28. Fall machen die Maigrets Ferien an der französischen Atlantikküste. Der Kommissar langweilt sich – erst recht, seit Madame Maigret im Krankenhaus liegt. Er besucht sie jeden Tag und vertreibt sich die restliche Zeit in den Bistros der Hafenstadt.

Quando il capo gli chiede di trattare con ogni riguardo il re delle macellerie, amico del Ministro, Maigret riconosce in lui Ferdinand Fumal, un vecchio compagno di scuola soprannominato Palla di lardo, e non riesce a trattenere un certo fastidio. Ricorda ancora la rabbia che aveva letto sul volto suo padre quando Fumal Senior aveva cercato di corromperlo. Ma quando Palla di lardo viene trovato cadavere il fastidio si trasforma in senso di colpa. Per la prima volta in vita sua Maigret sente di aver preso un granchio.

Chi ha ucciso Germaine sfondandole il cranio a colpi di martello e perché ha gettato nella Mosa il corpo solo tre giorni dopo? Siamo a Givet, paesino francese al confine con il Belgio dove Germaine, giovane ragazza madre, era scomparsa misteriosamente in una mattina di gennaio. La gente del paese è convinta che i colpevoli siano i fiamminghi e così Maigret, per capire il perché di questi sospetti, ne frequenta la casa. È proprio così che trova colpevole e movente grazie al suo imbattibile intuito.

I Donadieu sono un possente clan della Rochelle. Quando il capotribù Oscar l’Armatore scompare ha inizio una disgregazione che investe prima La Rochelle per diramarsi poi a Parigi. Con la stessa sicurezza con cui si manteneva, «l'ordine Donadieu» crolla. E trascina con sè non soltanto il clan, ma anche colui che era stato il freddo agente della rovina: l'arrivista Philippe.

Un fâcheux manque de discernement. Emile Maugin apprend du médecin qui l'examine qu'il n'a plus une longue espérance de vie devant lui. Il fait alors un retour sur lui-même : acteur comblé, il règne de manière tyrannique sur son entourage qui vit à ses dépens. Parvenu au faîte de la gloire, il aime à rappeler son enfance misérable dans le Marais vendéen... Adapté pour la télévision en 1988, dans la série "L'heure Simenon", par Milo Dor, avec Armin Mueller-Stahl (Emile), Leopoldo Trieste (Antonio).

Maigrets letzter Fall: Ein Mal noch darf der Kommissar durch sein geliebtes Paris streifen. Der renommierte Pariser Notar Gérard Sabin-Levesque wird vermisst – eigentlich nichts Ungewöhnliches, denn der lebenslustige 48-Jährige ist nicht zum ersten Mal für ein paar Tage verschwunden. Der Grund: außereheliche Eskapaden. Doch nun ist er schon seit einem Monat fort, und seine Frau Nathalie fürchtet, er könne einem Verbrechen zum Opfer gefallen sein. Die Ermittlungen führen Kommissar Maigret durch die angesagtesten Nachtlokale von Paris, und er muss erkennen: Levesque hat gleich in zweifacher Hinsicht ein Doppelleben geführt.

Eine zweifelhafte Verurteilung: Hat Maigret einen Fehler gemacht? Der Mitinhaber des Pharmakonzerns Josset & Virieu hat sich der Polizei gestellt – Adrien Josset wird verdächtigt, seine Frau ermordet zu haben. Der Grund? Josset hat eine junge Geliebte und deren Vater versprochen, sie zu heiraten. Doch im Verhör am Quai des Orfèvres beteuert er vehement seine Unschuld. Maigret ist versucht, Josset zu glauben, zumal bei den Ermittlungen des Untersuchungsrichters offenbar einiges unter den Teppich gekehrt wird.