Maigret's Dead Man

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

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.

Adaptations

Maigret's Dead Man has been dramatized six times:

• In 1961, in the BBC television series Maigret with Rupert Davies, as "The Winning Ticket"
• In the Dutch TV series starring Jan Teulings in 1966
• In the French TV series starring Jean Richard in 1970
• In 1978, in the Japanese series starring Kinya Aikawa as Keishi to satsujinshatachi ("Killers")
• In 1986, for BBC Radio 4's Saturday Night Theatre as Maigret's Special Murder, starring Bernard Hepton
• The second episode of ITV's 2016 series Maigret with Rowan Atkinson as Maigret.

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