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A Battle of Nerves

A Battle of Nerves is a detective novel by Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Inspector Jules Maigret. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest of Simenon's "Maigret" novels, and one of eleven he had published that year.

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Maigret and Monsieur Charles

Maigret and Monsieur Charles is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret.

Maigret and the Burglar's WifeW
Maigret and the Burglar's Wife

Maigret and the Burglar's Wife is a 1951 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. Maigret is spurred into action by a visit from a burglar's wife, whom he had known well many years before. She informs him that a few nights previously her husband had been in the act of burgling a house when he discovered a dead body on the floor. Horrified, he had fled the scene, and then left the country - writing to his wife by letter. Maigret is inclined to investigate a prominent dentist, who lives with his domineering mother, and has a wife who has apparently "gone away on holiday" - although Maigret knows he can prove nothing unless he can find the body.

Maigret and the DosserW
Maigret and the Dosser

Maigret and the Dosser is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret.

Maigret and the Headless CorpseW
Maigret and the Headless Corpse

Maigret and the Headless Corpse is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.

Maigret and the Mad WomanW
Maigret and the Mad Woman

Maigret and the Mad Woman (French title: La Folle de Maigret is a 1970 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. Maigret regrets his folly in dismissing an old lady whom he had taken to be mad because of her claims she was about to be murdered, only for her to be killed shortly afterwards.

Maigret and the Yellow DogW
Maigret and the Yellow Dog

Maigret and the Yellow Dog is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.

Maigret at the CrossroadsW
Maigret at the Crossroads

Maigret at the Crossroads is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. Published in 1931, it is one of the earliest novels to feature Inspector Maigret in the role of the chief police investigator, a character that has since become one of the best-known detectives in fiction.

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Maigret at the Gai-Moulin

Maigret at the Gai-Moulin is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.

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Maigret Goes Home

Maigret Goes Home is a 1932 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. Maigret is called back to his home village to try to prevent a crime being committed. It was also released as Maigret on Home Ground and Maigret and the Countess.

Maigret Goes to SchoolW
Maigret Goes to School

Maigret Goes to School is a 1954 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret.

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Maigret Has Scruples

Maigret Has Scruples is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret.

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Maigret Hesitates

Maigret Hesitates is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon.

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Maigret on the Defensive

Maigret on the Defensive is a 1964 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. The novel was first published in English in 1966 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd., translated by Alastair Hamilton. In 2019, this novel was reissued in English by Penguin under the title Maigret Defends Himself (ISBN 9780241304068), newly translated by Howard Curtis.

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Maigret Sets a Trap

Maigret Sets a Trap is a 1955 detective novel by the Belgian novelist Georges Simenon featuring his fictional character Jules Maigret.

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Maigret's Dead Man

Maigret's Dead Man 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 Maigret’s Special Murder, it was Simenon's 29th Maigret novel.

Maigret's FailureW
Maigret's Failure

Maigret's Failure is a detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his famous creation Jules Maigret.

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Maigret's First Case

Maigret's First Case is a 1948 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon, featuring his character Jules Maigret. The book covers Maigret's involvement on his first case in 1913, shortly before the First World War began. It was translated into English, by Robert Brain, in 1958.

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Maigret's Mistake

Maigret's Mistake is a 1953 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret. It was translated into English in 1954.

The Patience of MaigretW
The Patience of Maigret

The Patience of Maigret is a 1965 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon featuring his character Jules Maigret.

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The Strange Case of Peter the Lett

The Strange Case of Peter the Lett is a 1931 detective novel by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon. It is the first novel to feature Inspector Jules Maigret who would later appear in more than a hundred stories by Simenon and who has become a legendary figure in the annals of detective fiction.