Tag: Maigret

Pietr the Latvian

Pietr the Latvian

by Georges Simenon (A. Fayard, 1931); audiobook read by Gareth Armstrong (Bolinda, 2015); trans. David Bellos.

Book cover: 'Pietr the Latvian' by Georges Simenon

Inspector Maigret makes his presence felt throughout this first novel, establishing the physically imposing, somewhat misanthropic character who would feature in seventy-five books. His investigation, however, rattles along like an out-of-control train, the reader trapped inside and kept largely in the dark.

Maigret, Series 2

Maigret, Series 2

by Stewart Harcourt (ITV, 2017)

Maigret 2

Unfortunately, the two feature-length murder investigations of this series constitute the end of Rowan Atkinson’s run as French commissaire Jules Maigret. This is a shame, because the production values are high and Atkinson himself is excellent. Presumably TV audiences prefer rampant melodrama.

 

 

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