Certain details of the case were etched more sharply than others in Maigret's memory. Even years later he could recall the...

'Maigret had questioned thousands, tens of thousands of people in the course of his career, some occupying important positions,...

Conflict rather than harmony probably reigned in eight out of ten of the still magnificent houses that surrounded the park. But...

While at this time the previous day he had never heard of the Martons, the train set specialist was beginning to haunt his...

Maigret plunges into the murky Parisian underworld in book twenty-nine of the new Penguin Maigret series.

'That shoeless foot...

'You're a good soul, inspector, and when you're up against the second-rate criminals you get here in Paris, you're a crack...

'What else did they have to do with their days? They ambled around casually. From time to time, they paused, not because they...

'Maigret looked at him in some confusion, wondering if he waas dealing with a skilful actor or, on the contrary, with a sickly...

Standing here at the window in the middle of the morning, vaguely observing the comings and goings in the street, he had a...

For the first time in his career Inspector Maigret receives written summons to the Prefect's office where he learns that he has...

'He opened the door for her and watched her walk away down the huge corridor, then hesitate at the top of the stairs. Heads...

'Maigret had never been comfortable in certain circles, among the wealthy bourgeoisie where he felt clumsy and awkward ... Built...

When a tramp is recovered from the Seine, after being badly beaten, Maigret must delve into the man's personal circumstances to...

'He had seldom been so perplexed by human beings. Would a psychiatrist, a teacher or a novelist...have been better placed to...

Maigret is called to the home of professional gambler, Felix Nahour, who has been found shot dead by his chambermaid. Maigret is...

'Once alone in his office, he went over and opened the window as if being in charge of this case made him gasp for a breath of...

'Leaning on the banisters, Madame Maigret watched her husband going heavily downstairs . . . what the newspapers didn't know was...

'Why all of a sudden did this shock him? He was annoyed with himself for being shocked. He felt as if he had been sucked into the...

In his mind's eye he would see that slim figure in the striking clothes, those wide eyes the colour of forget-me-not, the pert...

Cars drove past along with the trucks and trams, but by now Maigret had realised that they were not important. Whatever roared by...

During a quiet spell in June Maigret is called to investigate the disappearance of a reputable businessman. When a body is...

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...

I can still see Simenon coming into my office the next day, pleased with himself, displaying even more self-confidence, if...

Maigret finds himself back on the Rue des Acacias just ten days after cracking another case there. This time it is the murder of...

They suddenly found themselves in an impersonal world, where everyday words no longer seemed to mean anything, where the most...

They ran into cloud cover as they approached the French coast and flew up above it. Through a break in the clouds a little later,...

In everyone's eyes, even the old ladies hiding behind their quivering curtains, even the kids just now who had turned to stare...

A small, thin man, rather dull to look at, neither young nor old, exuding the stale smell of a bachelor who does not look after...

'This was natural. It is the same everywhere. Rarely, however, had Maigret had such a strong sense of a clique. In a small town...

'Maigret would have found it difficult to formulate an opinion of him. Intelligent, yes, certainly, and highly so, as far as one...