Pietr the Latvian, by Georges Simenon. Penguin. 176 pages. $11.00. The Two-Penny Bar, by Georges Simenon. Penguin. 160 pages. $11.00. The Mahé Circle, by Georges Simenon. Penguin. 160 pages. $11.00.

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 ...

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 ...

Georges Simenon was a phenomenon, a hack who became a great writer. The reverse is more common. We can all think of authors who started with high literary ambitions and ended by writing commercially ...

“Maigret and the Dosser” is the name of the new title in the ‘Neqab’ (mask) series of Jahan-e Ketab Publishing House, which has been translated by Abbas Agahi, Mehr reported. The French title was ...

When Rowan Atkinson took on the role of the legendary pipe smoking French detective Jules Maigret for television, he claimed part of the attraction was playing a "very ordinary man". Weighed against ...

In an ambitious act of reinvention, Penguin has announced that it will reissue, in new translations, all 75 of Georges Simenon’s Inspector Maigret mysteries -- some of the bleakest, and best, works ...

Four-disc set offers all 12 episodes from the %2790s that aired on PBS%27s Masterpiece Mystery%21 Character was created by Belgian writer Georges Simenon first appeared in 1930 Gambon epitomizes the ...

As Benjamin Wainwright is front and center as the latest actor to play the legendary Chief Inspector Jules Maigret in the PBS Masterpiece series Maigret, he obviously faces a tall task stepping into ...