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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Like many bookish children, I grew up consuming detective fiction more than any other kind. Even then I had noticed that stories supposedly driven by narrative depended for their real vitality on ...

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 ...

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 ...