Maigret's Dead Man (French: Maigret et son mort), also translated as Maigret and His Dead Man and Maigret’s Special Murder, is a 1948 detective novel by the Belgian novelist Georges Simenon featuring the fictional character Jules Maigret. It was Simenon's 29th Maigret novel.
 First edition | |
| Author | Georges Simenon |
|---|---|
| Original title | Maigret et son mort |
| Language | French |
| Series | Inspector Jules Maigret |
Release number | 29 |
| Genre | Detective fiction |
| Publisher | Presses de la Cité |
Publication date | 1948 |
| Media type | |
| Preceded by | A Summer Holiday |
| Followed by | Maigret's First Case |
Plot edit
A man telephones for Maigret from a café and saying that he is being followed. Without finishing the call he hangs up. He attempts to call Maigret from different cafés, then the calls cease. Then a body is found in the Place de la Concorde badly beaten and stabbed. It was observed being dumped from a car.[1]
Adaptations edit
Maigret's Dead Man has been dramatized five times:
- In 1961, in the BBC television series Maigret with Rupert Davies, as "The Winning Ticket"[2]
- In the Dutch TV series starring Jan Teulings in 1966
- In the French TV series starring Jean Richard in 1970
- In 1978, in the Japanese series starring Kinya Aikawa as Keishi to satsujinshatachi ("Killers")
- The second episode of ITV's 2016 series Maigret with Rowan Atkinson as Maigret.[3]
References edit
- ^ "Maigret's Dead Man". trussel.com. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
- ^ "Maigret: The Winning Ticket". Radio Times. 153: 23. 1961.
- ^ "Rowan Atkinson starts filming ITV drama Maigret" (Press release). ITV. 8 September 2015.
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