Maigret's Dead Man

Maigret's Dead Man

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	Print
Preceded by	A Summer Holiday
Followed by	Maigret's First Case

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.

Plot

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

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

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