The world of detective fiction has some very engaging characters with a phenomenal reader following: Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes, Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot and Andrea Camilleri’s Salvo Montalbano, for example. But the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, who, through 75 novels and nearly 30 short stories, immortalised Detective Chief Inspector Jules Maigret of the Paris Police Judiciaire, surpasses them all.
Simenon launched the first Maigret book with The Strange Case of Peter the Lett in 1931; the last, Maigret and Monsieur Charles, came out in 1972. Originally written in French, they found worldwide acceptance, making the Penguin Press decide to reissue the series in English. Starting in November 2013, Penguin released one translation every month over the next six years. The final volume – the 75th – is being released this month; that should testify to the longevity and popularity of Simenon’s Inspector Maigret.
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