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When a self-made man appeals to Maigret for protection at his lavish home, a years-old grudge from the past resurfaces and the inspector finds himself questioning his own motives. Conflict rather than harmony probably reigned in eight out of 10 of the still magnificent houses that surrounded the park. But he had rarely had the opportunity to breath such a strained atmosphere as the one between these walls.

When a school teacher from a small coastal town near La Rochelle asks Maigret to help prove he is innocent of murder, the Inspector returns with him to his insular community and finds the residents closing ranks to conceal the truth.

Madame Maigret takes the lead in a disturbing investigation in this new translation, book 34 of the Maigret series. Inspector Maigret's wife turns sleuth after a strange encounter in a Paris square leads her on the trail of a woman in a white hat and towards a grisly tale of deception and greed.

Maigret would have found it difficult to formulate an opinion of him. Intelligent, yes, certainly, and highly so, as far as one could tell from what lay beneath some of his utterances. Yet alongside that, there was a naive, rather childish side to him. Maigret is savouring a beautiful spring morning in Paris when an aspiring film-maker draws his attention to a much less inspiring scene, one where ever-changing loyalties can have tragic consequences.

Maigret finds himself back on the Rue des Acacias just 10 days after cracking another case there. This time it is the murder of a criminal Maigret has known for over 20 years and one he always suspected was behind a string of jewellery robberies in the city. Maigret's patience is tested as he eliminates neighbour by neighbour in his hunt for the murderer.

A retired manufacturer has been shot dead by his own pistol, last seen alive by his son-in-law. In this seemingly motiveless murder, Inspector Maigret must rely on his famous intuition to discover the truth. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret and the Black Sheep.

A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces. 'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion...disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers.' Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man. Then he discovers that his boss has bankrupted the shipping firm he works for - and something snaps.

Four gripping dramatisations starring Maurice Denham as Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon. The world’s best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about four intriguing cases in these full-cast dramatisations that have been specially adapted for radio from the original novels.

Maigret is called to the home of Armand de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected official who has been found shot dead in his study by his housekeeper. After interviewing everyone concerned, Maigret is at a loss to the identity of the perpetrator until he comes across a series of letters from the past 50 years between the victim and a recently widowed woman. As Maigret uncovers the details behind the two's relationship, he gets closer to discovering the tragic truth behind the official's demise. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret in Society.

Maigret decide di far visita al vecchio amico ed ex-collega Leduc a Villefranche, nel dipartimento della Dordogna. Prende il treno Parigi-Bordeaux e condivide lo scompartimento con un uomo che lo tiene sveglio tutta la notte a causa della sua agitazione. Al mattino Maigret si accorge che l'uomo sta per saltare dal treno prima dell'arrivo in stazione, e senza pensare alle conseguenze si getta anch'egli dal treno in corsa.

N'ayant trouvé d'autre consolation que le vin depuis que sa femme l'a quitté, l'avocat Hector Loursat a cessé de plaider. Il vit à Moulins, dans une grande maison aux trois quarts inhabitée, avec sa fille Nicole qu'il n'aime pas. Un soir, tout son univers bascule : il découvre un inconnu qui vient d'être assassiné. C'est la révélation de toute la vie secrète de Nicole... Sortant de son mutisme, Loursat accepte de plaider. D'abord, faire exister ce vieil hôtel particulier de Moulins, habité depuis 18 ans par la poussière et le silence.

Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret intervenes and speaks to the man daily, but when the calls suddenly stop Maigret finds a murder on his hands.

When a salesman from a Paris department store confides his secret fears to Maigret, the Inspector soon becomes caught up in a treacherous feud between husband and wife that is not as clear cut as it seems.

Imperious, clever, mysterious: Maigret meets his match in the alluring form of Félicie in book 25 of the new Penguin Maigret series. In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert nose and especially the hat, that giddy crimson bonnet perched on the top of her head with a bronze-green feather shaped like a blade stuck in it.... Félicie had given him more trouble than all the 'hard' men who had been put behind bars.

Maigret's old colleague becomes an unexpected rival in book 24 of the new Penguin Maigret series. In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare after they had passed him, he was the intruder, the undesirable. No, worse, he was fundamentally untrustworthy, some stranger who had just turned up from who knew where to do who knew what.

In una fredda mattina d’inverno, mentre il suo autista lo por-tava, come ogni giorno da trent’anni, alla ditta di import-export fondata da suo nonno, Norbert Monde ha deciso di scomparire. Anzi no: non c’è stato niente da decidere. Ma perché è accaduto proprio quel giorno? Forse perché era il suo compleanno… Così, ha cominciato a vivere una esistenza del tutto nuova, in un mondo che gli era ignoto. Un giorno pe-rò gli apparirà dinanzi un fantasma della sua vita di prima: allora il signor Monde, riprenderà la sua identità e il suo ruo-lo, ma non sarà più la stessa persona.

La luna doveva essere già sorta dietro la nebbia, che ora aveva una leggera luminescenza. Quando Arlette si voltò, Maigret vide la macchia chiara del suo viso e il tratto deciso, sanguigno, della bocca...Sempre immobile davanti a lui, la giovane donna aggiunse allora con una voce diversa, che faceva male sentire: «E... non vuole approfittarne, come gli altri?». Maigret provò l'impulso di fare con Arlette quello che lei aveva fatto con la madre: schiaffeggiarla come una bambina perversa. Si limitò a stringerle un braccio con forza e a spingerla verso la discesa.

Maigrets pikantester Fall: Der Kommissar ermittelt in einem Nachtlokal in Lüttich. Dafosse und Chabot, zwei mittellose junge Männer, brechen in das Nachtlokal Gai-Moulin ein. Aber statt einer vollen Kasse finden sie eine Leiche. Tags darauf liegt der Tote im Zoologischen Garten. Die Einbrecher gelten schnell als Hauptverdächtige – ebenso ein Mann aus Paris, der am Vorabend auch vor Ort gewesen sein soll und sich widerstandslos festnehmen lässt. Es ist Kommissar Maigret, der den Mann beschattet hat und ihm nach Lüttich gefolgt ist. Maigrets 10. Fall spielt in der belgischen Stadt Lüttich.

La casa dei Krull è al margine estremo del paese, e loro stessi ne vengono tenuti ai margini. Benché naturalizzati, restano gli stranieri, i diversi. E quando davanti all'emporio viene ripescato il cadavere di una ragazza violentata e uccisa, i sospetti cadono fatalmente su di loro. In un magistrale crescendo di tensione, e con un singolare rovesciamento, vediamo montare l'ostilità della popolazione francese verso la famiglia tedesca, e l'avversione per una minoranza, che rappresenta un perfetto capro espiatorio, degenerare progressivamente in odio e violenza.

L’omicidio di Emile Boulay, detto il Bottegaio, sembra da subito anomalo al commissario Maigret. Innanzi tutto perché il cadavere è stato tenuto nascosto per più di quarantott'ore prima di venir abbandonato su un marciapiede. E poi perché Emile è stato strangolato e in genere negli ambienti della malavita si usa la pistola, o al massimo il coltello. Lo stesso Boulay, del resto, era un personaggio anomalo: chi poteva avere interesse a farlo fuori?