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“The most extraordinary fictive shaper in our time.” —George Steiner Exiled to a sleepy town in western France, Maigret is relieved when he has to handle a challenging case. There’s been a murder in a mussel farming village and its most respected resident, the former judge Monsieur...

“I want to know what goes on in people’s minds. I suppose that’s why I love Georges Simenon so much. He was such a master of the small domestic situation.” —Ruth Rendell Tomorrow, at five in the afternoon, I will kill the clairvoyant. Signed,Picpus. This chilling message is seen...

Inspector Maigret believes a man he convicted may not be guilty after all—and so hatches an audacious plan to save him before he is condemned to death. A man escapes out of the High Surveillance wing of the most infamous penitentiary in Paris. Members of the Police Judiciaire see him, but no...

In this first installment in Georges Simenon’s legendary Inspector Maigret series, M. Maigret hunts down an elusive and notorious confidence man, but finds that identifying him is a game of doubles, intrigue, and hidden crimes. When Detective Chief Inspector Maigret receives notice from...

An evocative tale from Georges Simenon that unearths the inspector’s past: Maigret finds an anonymous note predicting a crime in his hometown. I wish to inform you that a crime will be committed at the church of Saint-Fiacre during first mass on All Souls’ Day. This handwritten note is...

A glamorous woman suddenly turns up dead in the middle of nowhere in a tragic, mysterious puzzle that only Georges Simenon’s legendary detective can solve. It’s just another slow, rainy day on a French canal, until the discovery of a woman’s body disrupts the placid scene. Inspector...

A crew’s captain turns up dead, but it’s the evil eye that haunts them—Inspector Maigret must navigate stone-faced sailors to solve the fishy sequence of events. A fishing boat docks at a port in Normandy—and hours later its captain is floating in the harbor, strangled to death. When...

Another riveting tale from Georges Simenon, in which two siblings, living in isolation, are suspects in a tale of deception, theft, and murder. It’s been seventeen hours of interrogation, yet Carl Andersen’s air of elegance remains unruffled. Inspector Maigret is bewildered by the behavior...

Suddenly witness to a man’s dreadful death, Inspector Maigret finds himself faced with a series of sordid events that drove the man to despair in this haunting tale of guilt and tragedy. While stopped at a railway station on the northern edge of Holland, Inspector Maigret catches sight of a...

Sun, sand, the Côte d’Azur—and a mysterious dead man with multiple hidden lives. Who was Mr. Brown? And why does the mystery of his life preoccupy Maigret so? Georges Simenon’s Maigret arrives in Antibes on the French Riviera tasked with discreetly solving the murder of one Mr. Brown...

"[Narrator] James Faulkner delivers a resonant, understated performance as the no-nonsense Inspector Maigret...Faulkner's transitions between characters are seamless, and the female suspects are voiced with a gentle lift in tone that captures nuances of personality. A compelling, atmospheric...

Qualcuno ha ucciso brutalmente William Brown, un australiano che durante la guerra ha lavorato per i servizi segreti, e Maigret viene caldamente pregato di risolvere il caso con rapidità e discrezione. Giunto ad Antibes, tuttavia, il commissario si trova d'improvviso catapultato in un mondo che pare avere su di lui l'effetto di un narcotico.

Predlagaem vashemu vnimaniyu audioknigu ZH. Simenona "Megre i stroptivye svideteli". Komissar Megre nosit davno vyshedshie iz mody kotelok i pal'to, ne rasstaetsya s trubkoj, predpochitaet dozhdlivuyu pogodu, obozhaet gret'sya u ognya i hodit', zalozhiv ruki za spinu. Mrachnyj, nemnogoslovnyj, on obladaet redkim darom vnushat' doverie, emu izvestny tajnye pruzhiny chelovecheskoj dramy. Razgadyvaya samye slozhnye prestupleniya, rasputyvaya samye prichudlivye intrigi, Megre rukovodstvuetsya odnim bezotkaznym principom.

Predlagaem vashemu vnimaniyu audioknigu ZH. Simenona " Megre kolebletsya". Komissar Megre nosit davno vyshedshie iz mody kotelok i pal'to, ne rasstaetsya s trubkoj, predpochitaet dozhdlivuyu pogodu, obozhaet gret'sya u ognya i hodit', zalozhiv ruki za spinu. Mrachnyj, nemnogoslovnyj, on obladaet redkim darom vnushat' doverie, emu izvestny tajnye pruzhiny chelovecheskoj dramy. Razgadyvaya samye slozhnye prestupleniya, rasputyvaya samye prichudlivye intrigi, Megre rukovodstvuetsya odnim bezotkaznym principom: chtoby najti vinovnyh, nuzhno prezhde vsego ponyat' smysl ih postupkov.

Predlagaem vashemu vnimaniyu audioknigu ZH. Simenona "Megre u ministra". Komissar Megre nosit davno vyshedshie iz mody kotelok i pal'to, ne rasstaetsya s trubkoj, predpochitaet dozhdlivuyu pogodu, obozhaet gret'sya u ognya i hodit', zalozhiv ruki za spinu. Mrachnyj, nemnogoslovnyj, on obladaet redkim darom vnushat' doverie, emu izvestny tajnye pruzhiny chelovecheskoj dramy. Razgadyvaya samye slozhnye prestupleniya, rasputyvaya samye prichudlivye intrigi, Megre rukovodstvuetsya odnim bezotkaznym principom: chtoby najti vinovnyh, nuzhno prezhde vsego ponyat' smysl ih postupkov.

Predlagaem vashemu vnimaniyu audioknigu ZH. Simenona "Megrei staraya dama". Komissar Megre nosit davno vyshedshie iz mody kotelok i pal'to, ne rasstaetsya s trubkoj, predpochitaet dozhdlivuyu pogodu, obozhaet gret'sya u ognya i hodit', zalozhiv ruki za spinu. Mrachnyj, nemnogoslovnyj, on obladaet redkim darom vnushat' doverie, emu izvestny tajnye pruzhiny chelovecheskoj dramy. Razgadyvaya samye slozhnye prestupleniya, rasputyvaya samye prichudlivye intrigi, Megre rukovodstvuetsya odnim bezotkaznym principom: chtoby najti vinovnyh, nuzhno prezhde vsego ponyat' smysl ih postupkov.

A Liegi, la notte annoda i destini di due adolescenti che giocano a fare gli uomini, una ballerina, il proprietario del night club e naturalmente... il morto, un ricco greco. I sospetti cadono sul misterioso francese dallo sguardo pacato ma penetrante, che si trovava sul luogo del delitto e che assomiglia in tutto e per tutto all'ispettore Maigret! Il commissario dovrà chiarire la sua posizione e naturalmente smascherare il colpevole.

Maigret si è felicemente adattato alla sua nuova vita da pensionato, in campagna con la moglie. Ma Parigi, con le sue strade, i suoi caffè, i vecchi colleghi, gli incontri pericolosi, lo reclamano e l’ex commissario dovrà tornarvi per aiutare il nipote Philippe Laurer, ora poliziotto, a liberarsi da una pesante accusa di omicidio.

Frank ha diciannove anni ed è figlio dell’attraente tenutaria di una casa di appuntamenti in una città del Nord durante l’occupazione nazista. Freddo, scostante, insolente, solitario, Frank vuole in segreto una cosa sola: iniziarsi alla vita. E crede che il modo migliore per farlo sia uccidere qualcuno senza ragione. Con sbalorditiva sicurezza, Simenon entra nella testa di questo personaggio al limite fra l’abiezione e una paradossale innocenza, e intorno a lui fa vivere il mondo della neve sporca – la sordida scena di una città dove tutto è tradimento, rancore, doppio gioco.

In a dimly lit apartment building, where shadowy figures come and go, a man has been killed in Georges Simenon’s The Shadow Puppet. On the dimly lit Place des Vosges, Maigret hears the sound of a woman in distress. But this is no crime; she is giving birth in a room above. The lights of the...