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Maigret's Dead Man
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Wikipedia article
'Maigret's Dead Man' (French: 'Maigret et son mort') is a 1948 detective novel by the Belgian novelist Georges Simenon featuring his fictional character Jules Maigret. Also translated as 'Maigret and His Dead Man' or 'Maigrets Special Murder', it was Simenon's 29th Maigret novel.
Plot
A man telephones for Maigret from a caf and saying that he is being followed. Without finishing the call he hangs up. He attempts to call Maigret from different cafs, 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.
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"
* 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.
References
Category:1948 novels
Category:Maigret novels
Category:Belgian novels adapted into films
Category:Presses de la Cit books
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