Investigating a Belgian emigre bookbinder accused of murder, Chief Inspector Maigret gets help from Mme. Maigret, who accidentally befriends a woman and little boy connected to the case. According to ...

It’s not the number of books Simenon wrote that is impressive. It’s their consistent quality. The writing method was as extraordinary as the books. A Maigret novel came on Simenon like an illness: he ...

For those who fear that Oprah may be right — that there just aren’t enough good books to go around these days — there is always Simenon. No, not the late mystery writer Georges Simenon, creator of the ...

Over the past few years Penguin have not only reinvigorated the Maigret series with their ongoing project to publish new editions of all 75 of them, re-translated by some of the top names in the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There have been few writers as prolifically désengagé as Georges Simenon, the author of nearly two hundred absorbing, intensely ...

Colin Callender’s Playground and Red Arrow Studios International are joining forces to co-develop a premium English-language returning drama series based on Georges Simenon’s classic Inspector Maigret ...

In the France of Simenon's 1958 novella, a political storm is raging. The government has collapsed, giving way to media hype and fears of economic crisis. In the scramble to form a new coalition all ...

The idea of Inspector Maigret came to Georges Simenon one afternoon in a cafe after a few glasses of schnapps. As the day progressed, he added the character's various accessories: the pipe, the bowler ...

New York Review Books: 560 pp., $17.95 paper In 1941, a doctor told Georges Simenon that he had two years to live. The famously prolific author eventually learned the diagnosis was wrong (he died in ...

1903-1989 "Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness." Liege, Belgium He left school at 16 due to his father's illness (his explanation) or because he rebelled against the discipline ...

There have been few writers as prolifically désengagé as Georges Simenon, the author of nearly two hundred absorbing, intensely readable thrillers and detective novels under his own name and many ...

The story of Bela Tarr's extraordinary English language film 2007 film of Georges Simenon's 1934 novel, The Man from London, starring Tilda Swinton, is as strange as, well, fiction. However, do rather ...