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A picture of Kinya Aikawa as Maigret/Megure, and Simenon's quote from La Revue du Cinéma nº 454, November 1989. Article retrieved on Trussel.com". Archived from the original on 11 May 2011 . Retrieved 12 March 2011. Recurring characters in the series include Maigret's wife Louise (usually referred to simply as Madame Maigret) [7] and in particular "The Faithful Four", a group consisting of his four loyal police colleagues (Sgt./Inspector Lucas, Janvier, Lapointe, and Torrence [7]). Maigret in New York, Inspector Maigret in New York's Underworld, Maigret in New York's Underworld ('47) PLOT Chez les Flamands [Flemish Shop], Le port des brumes [Death of a Harbormaster], Maigret chez le coroner [M at the Coroner's], Maigret et la jeune morte [M and the Young Girl], Maigret s'amuse [M's Little Joke].

Murielle Wenger, Stephen Trussel Maigret's World: A Reader's Companion to Simenon's Famous Detective, McFarland 2017, p.9 Maigret is a British television series made by the BBC and which – following a pilot episode broadcast in 1959 – ran for 52 episodes from 1960 to 1963. [1] The series was written by a set of ten writers, each contributing individual episodes; the most prolific being Giles Cooper, credited with nineteen episodes, and Roger East, with twelve. [2] While this isn't his best work - it is, after all, the 38th novel in the series - it still brings to life the magic that was Paris in days gone by; still evokes that classic mystery whodunit atmosphere; and still provides one of the more intelligent resolutions in any crime fiction. A classic cat-and-mouse story. He was from the village of Saint-Fiacre in the Allier Department, where his father Evariste Maigret was the bailiff for the local landowner; see Simenon's novel Maigret's Failure ( Un échec de Maigret), about a school bully and contemporary, "Fatty" Ferdinand Fumal from the same village. [ citation needed] Characteristics [ edit ]Theme music and various incidental music was composed by Ron Grainer [6] for which he won an Ivor Novello award. [6] Apart from the pilot, all 52 episodes remain within the BBC's archives. [7] Here we get a kind of crime-in-reverse plot as Maigret gets to learn of a dead body but isn't completely sure that a crime has actually been committed - it's not hard to work out what's really going on but the pleasure of these books is as much from atmosphere and following Maigret as in getting to the solution. What follows is Simenon's usual character study as Maigret plays a cat and mouse game with the person he suspects of murder. It is tightly written and a little less predictable than I have found most of the Maigret series. I read it for the characters, more than the plot and to see how Maigret solves the cases (a bit like the old tv series Colombo where you knew who the murderer was from the start and watched to see how Colombo caught them). Murielle Wenger, Stephen Trussel Maigret's World: A Reader's Companion to Simenon's Famous Detective, McFarland 2017, p.21

It reminds me that at the start of a number of his investigations Maigret says he doesn't know what he believes, yet he always has persistence and patience to watch and wait. Here he sees a potential scenario and then awaits facts to support or discount it. There is no magic the missing woman he says could turn up alive but if she's been killed he will find the ultimate truth. In the Soviet Union, Russian theatre actor Boris Tenin portrayed Maigret in several TV films in the 1970s. [1] In Soviet cinema, apart from Boris Tenin, Maigret was portrayed by cinema actors Vladimir Samoilov and Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. It's been many years since I last read a Maigret novel, but the recent Penguin re-issues in new translations piqued my interest in re-visiting him. This is the 38th in the series, so the character is well-established, and Simenon doesn't spend much time in this one filling in details of his personal life. It works perfectly as a standalone, as I believe most, if not all, of them do. A good place to dip your first toe into a Maigret story or refresh one's own memories from radio, TV or older versions of books that never seem to go out of circulation.

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Murielle Wenger, Stephen Trussel Maigret's World: A Reader's Companion to Simenon's Famous Detective, McFarland 2017, p.16-19