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Four gripping dramatisations starring Maurice Denham as Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges SimenonMaigret Goes to School/Maigret and the Old Lady/Maigret Hesitates/The Patience of MaigretThe world’s best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his creator Georges Simenon about four intriguing cases in these full-cast dramatisations that have been specially adapted for radio from the original novels.

Set against a high-profile hunt for the latest criminal gang to hit Paris, Maigret is determined to track down the murderer of a quiet crook for whom he cannot help feeling affection and respect. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret and the Idle Burglar.

Maigret is called to the home of Armand de Saint-Hilaire, a highly respected official who has been found shot dead in his study by his housekeeper. After interviewing everyone concerned, Maigret is at a loss to the identity of the perpetrator until he comes across a series of letters from the past 50 years between the victim and a recently widowed woman. As Maigret uncovers the details behind the two's relationship, he gets closer to discovering the tragic truth behind the official's demise. This novel has been published in a previous translation as Maigret in Society.

When Maigret's .45 revolver is stolen from his home, he becomes embroiled in a murder in which the gun may have played a deadly role. Maigret is the victim of a burglary in which the .45 revolver he had received as a gift from the FBI is stolen. That evening Maigret attends a dinner where François Lagrange, an acquaintance of Maigret's friend, is expected but fails to appear due to ill health. Following his instincts, Maigret decides to investigate Lagrange's absence and uncovers a body stowed in a trunk....

One by one the lighted windows went dark. The silhouette of the dead man could still be seen through the frosted glass like a Chinese shadow puppet. A taxi pulled up. It wasn't the public prosecutor yet. A young woman crossed the courtyard with hurried steps, leaving a whiff of perfume in her wake. Summoned to the dimly-lit Place des Vosges one night, where he sees shadowy figures at apartment windows, Maigret uncovers a tragic story of desperate lives, unhappy families, addiction and a terrible, fatal greed.

What was it about him that had struck Maigret so forcefully? Little John had cold eyes! Four or five times in his life, he had met people with cold eyes, those eyes that can stare at you without establishing any human contact. Persuaded to sail to New York by a fearful young law student, Maigret finds himself drawn into the city's underworld and a wealthy businessman's closely guarded past.

Inspector Maigret is followed home one evening by a man who reveals his intention to kill his wife and her lover. Maigret intervenes and speaks to the man daily, but when the calls suddenly stop Maigret finds a murder on his hands.

When a salesman from a Paris department store confides his secret fears to Maigret, the Inspector soon becomes caught up in a treacherous feud between husband and wife that is not as clear cut as it seems.

Imperious, clever, mysterious: Maigret meets his match in the alluring form of Félicie in book 25 of the new Penguin Maigret series. In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert nose and especially the hat, that giddy crimson bonnet perched on the top of her head with a bronze-green feather shaped like a blade stuck in it.... Félicie had given him more trouble than all the 'hard' men who had been put behind bars.

In book 39 of the new Penguin Maigret, the inspector learns that his hapless colleague Lognon is being menaced by some notorious American mobsters, and he makes it his mission to bring them to justice - despite threatening warnings that he is out of his depth. This story has been published in a previous translation as Inspector Maigret and the Killers.

Maigret's old colleague becomes an unexpected rival in book 24 of the new Penguin Maigret series. In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare after they had passed him, he was the intruder, the undesirable. No, worse, he was fundamentally untrustworthy, some stranger who had just turned up from who knew where to do who knew what.

A new translation of Simenon's tense novel, audiobook fifteen in the Maigret series. "He recalled his travelling companion's agitated sleep - was it really sleep? - his sighs and his sobbing. Then the two dangling legs, the patent-leather shoes and hand-knitted socks... An insipid face. Glazed eyes. And Maigret was not surprised to see a grey beard eating into his cheeks...."

Maigrets letzter Fall: Ein Mal noch darf der Kommissar durch sein geliebtes Paris streifen. Der renommierte Pariser Notar Gérard Sabin-Levesque wird vermisst – eigentlich nichts Ungewöhnliches, denn der lebenslustige 48-Jährige ist nicht zum ersten Mal für ein paar Tage verschwunden. Der Grund: außereheliche Eskapaden. Doch nun ist er schon seit einem Monat fort, und seine Frau Nathalie fürchtet, er könne einem Verbrechen zum Opfer gefallen sein. Die Ermittlungen führen Kommissar Maigret durch die angesagtesten Nachtlokale von Paris, und er muss erkennen: Levesque hat gleich in zweifacher Hinsicht ein Doppelleben geführt.

Eine zweifelhafte Verurteilung: Hat Maigret einen Fehler gemacht? Der Mitinhaber des Pharmakonzerns Josset & Virieu hat sich der Polizei gestellt – Adrien Josset wird verdächtigt, seine Frau ermordet zu haben. Der Grund? Josset hat eine junge Geliebte und deren Vater versprochen, sie zu heiraten. Doch im Verhör am Quai des Orfèvres beteuert er vehement seine Unschuld. Maigret ist versucht, Josset zu glauben, zumal bei den Ermittlungen des Untersuchungsrichters offenbar einiges unter den Teppich gekehrt wird.

Maigrets folgenschwerste Aussage: Er setzt sich für einen Angeklagten ein, doch der zeigt sich gar nicht dankbar. Kommissar Maigret steht kurz vor der Pensionierung. Gerade war er mit Madame Maigret für einen Kurzurlaub an der Loire. Kaum zurück in Paris, muss er vor dem Schwurgericht aussagen. Gaston Meurant wird beschuldigt, seine Tante und deren vierjährige Pflegetochter Cécile getötet zu haben: Die Anklage lautet auf Raubmord. Ein blutiger Anzug, ein Haufen Schulden und ein anonymer Hinweis sprechen gegen den verschlossenen Rahmenmacher.

Maigret verliert die Fassung: Die Ehre des Kommissars wird angegriffen. Als der Nachtclubbesitzer Émile Boulay spurlos verschwindet, deutet zunächst einiges auf einen Racheakt im Rotlichtmilieu hin. Erst vor wenigen Wochen ist der Anführer einer korsischen Bande auf offener Straße erschossen worden. Doch Kommissar Maigret will nicht recht glauben, dass sich der arbeitsame, bescheidene Boulay mit Gangstern angelegt hat. Zwei Tage später wird Boulay erwürgt beim Friedhof Père Lachaise aufgefunden.

Scotland Yard ha inviato a Parigi l'ispettore Pyke per "studiare" il metodo Maigret! Pyke è molto diligente e segue Maigret come un'ombra, cosa che fa impazzire il nostro commissario. Avrà modo di vedere Maigret all'opera quando a Porquerolles viene ucciso Marcellin, un piccolo malvivente che vive su una barca. Delitto che non sarebbe stato di competenza del commissario se non fosse che Marcellin sosteneva di essere suo amico, e tutti sono convinti che sia morto proprio per questa ragione.

La signora Maigret è finita sulle prime pagine dei giornali insieme a un'amica che le ha giocato un brutto scherzo scomparendo misteriosamente dopo averle lasciato un bambino di due anni. E come se non bastasse la Signora ha deciso di ribellarsi al suo celebre marito e mettersi a indagare al posto suo. Cosa le sarà venuto in mente? Maigret è incredulo e soprattutto non capisce cosa colleghi questa vicenda all'impossibile caso Steuvels che tormenta la polizia giudiziaria.

Eine Schneiderin schickt Maigret einen verzweifelten Hilferuf. Denn ihr Geliebter, Albert, soll bei einem Einbruch auf dem Boulevard Beaumarchais jemanden erschossen haben und die verzweifelte junge Frau erhält seitdem Drohbriefe.

Als wie aus heiterem Himmel der junge Schriftsteller Sim auftaucht und Kommissar Maigret mit seinen Geschichten behelligt, wird dessen Leben gehörig auf den Kopf gestellt. Denn abgesehen von der gemeinsamen Liebe zum Pfeifenrauchen könnten diese beiden Herren unterschiedlicher nicht sein. Umso ärgerlicher ist es da, dass der Schundbuchautor auch noch die Dreistigkeit besitzt, Maigret zur Hauptfigur seiner Romanreihe avancieren zu lassen. Maigret zeigt sich pikiert, zumal dieses literarische Ebenbild seiner selbst ihm gar nicht recht gefallen will.