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Maigret's Dead Man

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Maigret's Dead Man
First edition
AuthorGeorges Simenon
Original titleMaigret et son mort
LanguageFrench
SeriesInspector Jules Maigret
Release number
29
GenreDetective fiction
PublisherPresses de la Cité
Publication date
1948
Media typePrint
Preceded byA Summer Holiday 
Followed byMaigret's First Case 

Maigret's Dead Man (French: Maigret et son mort), also translated as Maigret and His Dead Man and Maigret’s Special Murder, is a 1948 detective novel by the Belgian novelist Georges Simenon featuring the fictional character Jules Maigret. It was Simenon's 29th Maigret novel.

Plot

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A man telephones for Maigret from a café and saying that he is being followed. Without finishing the call he hangs up. He attempts to call Maigret from different cafés, then the calls cease. Then a body is found in the Place de la Concorde badly beaten and stabbed. It was observed being dumped from a car.[1]

Adaptations

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Maigret's Dead Man has been dramatized five times:

References

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  1. ^ "Maigret's Dead Man". trussel.com. Retrieved April 27, 2016.
  2. ^ "Maigret: The Winning Ticket". Radio Times. 153: 23. 1961.
  3. ^ "Rowan Atkinson starts filming ITV drama Maigret" (Press release). ITV. 8 September 2015.