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Maurice Denham is the famous French detective Maigret and Michael Gough is his creator Georges Simenon in these five classic radio dramatisations. Parisian detective Jules Maigret first appeared in print in 1931, and went on to feature in 76 novels and 28 short stories. An enduringly popular...

Mit Kommissar Maigret schuf Georges Simenon eine der eindrucksvollsten Figuren der Kriminalliteratur – leise, beharrlich und zutiefst menschlich. Diese 20 Hörspiele aus vier Jahrzehnten (1953–1994) lassen Maigrets Welt neu lebendig werden: das nächtliche Paris, verrauchte Cafés, elegante Boulevards und düstere Hafenkneipen. Statt aus Action entfaltet sich Spannung aus Atmosphäre, feiner Psychologie und dem genauen Zuhören eines Ermittlers, der seine Fälle mit Geduld und Menschenkenntnis löst.

A brilliant new translation of one of Simenon's best loved masterpieces. 'A certain furtive, almost shameful emotion...disturbed him whenever he saw a train go by, a night train especially, its blinds drawn down on the mystery of its passengers.' Kees Popinga is a respectable Dutch citizen and family man. Then he discovers that his boss has bankrupted the shipping firm he works for - and something snaps.

Inspector Maigret must untangle the web of lies left behind by a murdered man whose family didn't know him as well as they thought. When a man is found stabbed to death in an alley off Boulevard Saint-Martin, his identity card shows a workplace that had gone out of business three years earlier. As far as his wife knew, he still worked there, and she insists that the shoes and a tie he was wearing when he was killed 'couldn't be his'.

What else did they have to do with their days? They ambled around casually. From time to time, they paused, not because they were out of breath but to admire a tree, a house, the play of light and shadow, or a face. While taking a much-needed rest cure in Vichy with his wife, Maigret feels compelled to help with a local investigation, unravelling the secrets of the spa town's elegant inhabitants.

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.

When a man’s headless body is discovered in Paris’ Saint-Martin Canal, Maigret is quick to answer the call. It is in this very neighborhood that he meets a strangely taciturn woman who runs a cafe. Her husband is away on a trip - or so she says. As is often the case, Maigret soon learns that there is more to the story than meets the eye.

Eigentlich wollte der Kommissar in Maigret hat Angst nur seinen alten Studienfreund Chabot in Fontenay-le-Comte besuchen. Doch schon im Zug bittet ihn ein Mitreisender um Hilfe: Zwei Morde haben die Kleinstadt in Angst versetzt, sogar eine Bürgerwehr patrouilliert. Maigret versucht, seine Anwesenheit geheim zu halten – vergeblich, bald setzt die ganze Stadt ihre Hoffnungen in den berühmten Besucher aus Paris. Dann geschieht ein dritter Mord. Maigrets 42. Fall spielt in der Vendée.

Uno stimabile avvocato, che è riuscito, partendo dal basso, a conquistarsi un posto nella ristretta comunità dei notabili di Nogales, al confine tra gli Stati Uniti e il Messico, vede vacillare tutte le sue certezze quando gli compare davanti, evaso dal carcere in cui scontava una condanna per il tentato omicidio di un poliziotto, il fratello minore, che gli chiede di aiutarlo a passare la frontiera.

A causa di non meglio precisati problemi politici nel suo dipartimento, il commissario Maigret è esiliato a Luçon, in Vandea, dove indaga sull'omicidio del dottor Janin. Il cadavere viene trovato nella casa del giudice Forlacroix, un uomo austero che cerca di nascondere torbidi segreti familiari, legati ai figli e a relazioni passate. Ci vorrà tutta la tenacia di Maigret per fare luce su questa trama oscura.

Georges Simenon's autobiographical notebooks, in which he recorded his observations, experiences, anxieties and 'all the silly ideas that pass through my head', are one of the most candid self-portraits of a writer ever put to paper. Here, as the celebrated author ruthlessly examines his tortuous writing methods, his past, his fame, his intimate relationships and his fears of ageing, the result is an unsparing, often painfully revealing insight into a man trying both to find and to escape himself.

Quando il capo gli chiede di trattare con ogni riguardo il re delle macellerie, amico del Ministro, Maigret riconosce in lui Ferdinand Fumal, un vecchio compagno di scuola soprannominato Palla di lardo, e non riesce a trattenere un certo fastidio. Ricorda ancora la rabbia che aveva letto sul volto suo padre quando Fumal Senior aveva cercato di corromperlo. Ma quando Palla di lardo viene trovato cadavere il fastidio si trasforma in senso di colpa. Per la prima volta in vita sua Maigret sente di aver preso un granchio.

Maigrets finsterste Ermittlung: Der Kommissar tappt buchstäblich im Dunkeln. Eine schwarze Novembernacht. Maigret wird zur vornehmen Place des Vosges gerufen. Raymond Couchet, Inhaber eines Pharmazielabors, ist erschossen worden. Im Innenhof steht der Kommissar vor erleuchteten Fenstern. Hinter einem zeichnet sich die Silhouette des eben erschossenen Couchet ab. Hinter einem anderen sieht er eine Frau wild gestikulieren. Und hinter einem dritten bringt eine Frau gerade ihr Kind zur Welt. Hängen die Schattenspiele miteinander zusammen?

'He hadn't seen her arrive. She had stopped on the pavement a few steps away from him and was peering into the courtyard of the Police Judiciaire, where the small staff cars were parked. She ventured as far as the entrance, looked the officer up and down, then turned round and walked away towards the Pont-Neuf.' When an old lady tells Maigret someone has been moving things in her apartment, she is dismissed as a fantasist - until a shocking event proves otherwise.

Leaning on the banisters, Madame Maigret watched her husband going heavily downstairs.... What the newspapers didn't know was how much energy he put into trying to understand, how much he concentrated during certain investigations. It was as if he identified with the people he was hunting and suffered the same torments as they did.

Maigret finds himself back on the Rue des Acacias just 10 days after cracking another case there. This time it is the murder of a criminal Maigret has known for over 20 years and one he always suspected was behind a string of jewellery robberies in the city. Maigret's patience is tested as he eliminates neighbour by neighbour in his hunt for the murderer.

During an undercover case Inspector Lognon is shot in a room he was sharing with a beautiful woman who has since disappeared. Inspector Maigret retraces Lognon's secretive last few days and is drawn into the darker side of the art world.

The attempted suicide of a countess and the death of a billionaire in the same luxury Paris hotel send Maigret to the Riviera and then to Switzerland, as he searches for the truth amid the glittering world of the super rich. Eyes half closed, head tilted against the back of his seat, he seemed not to be thinking, as the plane flew over a thick carpet of bright clouds. In reality, he was making an effort to bring names and shadowy figures to life, names and figures that even this morning had been as unknown to him as the inhabitants of another planet.

Inspector Maigret is meant to be taking a holiday, but he can't resist following the development of his colleague Janvier's case in the papers - and playing a few tricks on the way. Standing at the window in the middle of the morning, vaguely observing the comings and goings in the street, he had a feeling that reminded him of certain days in his childhood, when his mother was still alive and he was off school because he had the flu or it was the end of term. It was the feeling of finding out what went on when he wasn't there.

The dark side of glamorous expat life in Paris is brought to life in this new translation. Try to imagine a guest, a wealthy woman, staying at the Majestic with her husband, her son, a nurse and a governess...in a suite that costs more than a thousand francs a day.... At six in the morning, she's strangled, not in her room but in the basement locker room.... In all likelihood, that's where the crime was committed.... What was the woman doing in the basement? Who could have lured her down there, and how?