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Georges Simenon (right) with legendary Italian film director Federico Fellini in 1977. (Photo: Jacques Haillot/Sygma via Getty Images)

Maigret - the enduring appeal of the Parisian sleuth

Rowan Atkinson portrayed Inspector Maigret in the recent ITV adaptations of Georges Simenon's novels.

Georges Simenon - investigating the legendary crime author

Books / 28 Feb 18

Graeme Macrae Burnet: should have shortened his Gallic tale.

Review: The Accident on the A35 by Graeme Macrae Burnet

Book Review / 08 Jan 18

Crime master Georges Simenon (1903-1989). Les Pitards, his early roman dur - or`hard novel' - is an thriling sea yarn, first published in 1935.

Reviewed: The Pitards by Georges Simenon

Books / 05 Sep 17

Georges Simenon (1903 - 1989) in 1972.

Georges Simenon - The Snow was Dirty

Book Review / 10 Jan 17

Cover image from When I Was Old, Georges Simenon's diaries from 1960-1962, recently re-issued in Penguin Classics.

Georges Simenon - When I Was Old

Books / 20 Dec 16

Georges Simenon: nostalgia sweetens the seaside town menace in the new translation of Maigret and the Old Lady from Penguin Classics.

Georges Simenon - Maigret and the Old Lady

Reviews / 24 Aug 17

Georges Simenon - the Belgian master of crime set The Hand in Connecticut, as a treacherous snowstorm inspires tragic consequences.

Georges Simenon - The Hand

Reviews / 14 Nov 16

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