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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...

Four gripping dramatisations starring Maurice Denham as Maigret and Michael Gough as his creator Georges Simenon; 'Maigret Goes to School', 'Maigret and the Old Lady', 'Maigret Hesitates' and 'The Patience of Maigret' The world’s best-known French detective, Jules Maigret, talks to his...

Georges Simenon ist weit mehr als nur der Schöpfer von Kommissar Maigret. In seinen »Roman durs« – seinen intensiven, psychologisch dichten Non-Maigret-Romanen – öffnet er die Tür zu den Abgründen der menschlichen Psyche, enthüllt gesellschaftliche Spannungen und macht die stillen Dramen des Alltags spürbar. Diese Hörbuchsammlung vereint elf seiner meisterhaften psychologischen Romane. Jeder Roman ist ein eindringliches Porträt von Charakteren, deren Gedanken, Ängste und Begierden Simenon mit präziser, fesselnder Sprache lebendig macht.

Da anni, ormai, Émile e Marguerite non si rivolgono più la parola, e comunicano solo attraverso laconici bigliettini. Del resto, niente li predisponeva a formare una coppia armoniosa: lei è magra, pallida e impettita; lui tarchiato e sanguigno; lei ha alle spalle gli splendori di una famiglia dell'alta borghesia caduta in rovina e il ricordo di un primo marito musicista; lui viene dalla banlieue operaia, e nel suo passato ci sono le balere in riva alla Senna e una moglie allegra e polposa morta troppo presto.

La sesta raccolta degli audiolibri di Georges Simenon con protagonista il commissario Maigret riunisce i seguenti titoli: “Il morto di Maigret”: Una mattina un uomo chiama Maigret più volte dicendo di essere braccato e in pericolo di vita. Quella notte il suo cadavere viene ritrovato in Place de la Concorde, accoltellato a morte.

Maigrets schockierendster Fall: Ein eingestürztes Krankenhaus löst eine Regierungskrise aus. Mitten in der Nacht wendet Minister Auguste Point sich an Maigret. Ein brisantes Gutachten über einen Krankenhausbau, das eine Regierungskrise auslösen könnte, ist aus seinem Büro verschwunden. Maigret ist der Minister auf Anhieb sympathisch, aber kann er ihm wirklich trauen? Dann verschwindet der Minister, der von der Presse der Korruption bezichtigt wird, plötzlich spurlos. Maigret versucht ihn zu finden und gerät immer tiefer in die Machtspiele der Pariser Politik.

Che cosa ci farà mai in un paesino della Vandea che a metà gennaio sembra fatto di acqua e di fango, quell'essere livido e odioso che tutti al Quai des Orfèvres hanno sempre chiamato l'ispettore Cadavre? La questione intriga il commissario Maigret, arrivato lì in veste privata per dare una mano al cognato di un giudice che rischia l'imputazione di omicidio.

Isabel è dolce, serena, indulgente, e in diciassette anni non gli ha mai rivolto un rimprovero. Eppure basta uno sguardo a far capire a Donald che lei intuisce, e non di rado disapprova, le sue azioni – perfino i suoi pensieri. E quando, una notte che è ospite da loro, Ray scompare durante una terribile bufera di neve e Donald, che è andato a cercarlo, torna annunciando a lei e a Mona, la moglie dell'amico, di non essere riuscito a trovarlo, le ci vuole poco a intuire che mente.

“The most extraordinary fictive shaper in our time.” —George Steiner Exiled to a sleepy town in western France, Maigret is relieved when he has to handle a challenging case. There’s been a murder in a mussel farming village and its most respected resident, the former judge Monsieur...

In a dimly lit apartment building, where shadowy figures come and go, a man has been killed in Georges Simenon’s The Shadow Puppet. On the dimly lit Place des Vosges, Maigret hears the sound of a woman in distress. But this is no crime; she is giving birth in a room above. The lights of the...

A gripping novel that sees Maigret brought out of his peaceful retirement. When Maigret’s police officer nephew is framed for a gangland murder, the former chief inspector must swap his countryside retirement for his old stomping ground: Paris’s seamy underworld. Fueled by regular tipples...

In the heart of the Parisian summer, a forgotten crime comes to light in this Inspector Maigret tale from Georges Simenon. On the eve of his death, a condemned man remembers a crime he witnessed years before. With only the name of a bar to direct him, Maigret joins a party of summering revelers...

An eerie mystery in which a local wine dealer is shot and a strange yellow dog starts to circle the town—Inspector Maigret must navigate small-town dynamics to find the elusive culprit. Late at night in a small seaside town, not a single light is on, and everyone is asleep. Or almost everyone...

“Simenon was fascinated by peculiarities of human personality, which he described in elegant, simple prose . . . as pure as running water.” —Roger Ebert It’s the height of spring, and Maigret is grappling with doubly unfamiliar circumstances. He’s in the surreal new village of...

Another riveting tale from Georges Simenon, in which two siblings, living in isolation, are suspects in a tale of deception, theft, and murder. It’s been seventeen hours of interrogation, yet Carl Andersen’s air of elegance remains unruffled. Inspector Maigret is bewildered by the behavior...

Sun, sand, the Côte d’Azur—and a mysterious dead man with multiple hidden lives. Who was Mr. Brown? And why does the mystery of his life preoccupy Maigret so? Georges Simenon’s Maigret arrives in Antibes on the French Riviera tasked with discreetly solving the murder of one Mr. Brown...

“I’ve read a lot of Simenon, who’s a favorite writer of mine.” —Sigrid Nunez In a run-down Paris suburb, housebound widow Juliette Boynet is strangled. For Inspector Maigret, this murder hits home more than most: he’s well acquainted with Juliette’s live-in carer, her selfless...

A man on the run, a madman on the loose terrorizing the town, and Maigret on the case—a thrilling, nerve-racking mystery from Georges Simenon. The Madman of Bergerac finds Maigret on the train to Bordeaux trying to sleep, to no avail. A man in the bunk above is tossing and turning, perhaps...

When a drowned man comes back to life, Georges Simenon’s detective must figure out who might have wanted him dead—before they try again. Emile Ducrau, the kingpin of a small town on the outskirts of Paris, is stabbed and left for dead in the harbor one night. When he’s pulled from the...

In The Misty Harbor, a missing harbormaster turns up, only to be murdered on his first night home, in another captivating tale featuring Georges Simenon’s intrepid Inspector Maigret. A man, clad in brand-new clothes with no identification, is found on the streets of Paris. Mute, he also has a...