Inspector Maigret is the chief protagonist in the Inspector Maigret series of novels by prolific Belgian, Georges Simenone. The first appearance of Inspector Maigret was in the 1931 published mystery thriller, Pietr the Latvian.
Order of Inspector Maigret Series
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | The Carter of 'La Providence' | 1930 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Pietr the Latvian | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
3 | The Yellow Dog | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
4 | The Hanged Man of Saint-Pholien | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
5 | A Man's Head | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
6 | The Late Monsieur Gallet | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
7 | The Night at the Crossroads | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
8 | The Two-Penny Bar | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
9 | A Crime in Holland | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
10 | The Dancer at the Gai-Moulin | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
11 | The Misty Harbour | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
12 | Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
13 | The Grand Banks Café | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
14 | Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
15 | Maigret at the Crossroads | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
16 | Maigret in Holland | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
17 | The Sailors' Rendezvous (Short Story) | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
18 | Maigret at the Gai-Moulin | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
19 | The Bar on the Seine | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
20 | Maigret and the Death of a Harbor-Master | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
21 | Maigret Stonewalled (Short Story) | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
22 | Maigret Meets a Milord (Short Story) | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
23 | Lock 14 | 1931 | Description / Buy | |
24 | The Madman of Bergerac | 1932 | Description / Buy | |
25 | Liberty Bar | 1932 | Description / Buy | |
26 | The Shadow Puppet | 1932 | Description / Buy | |
27 | Maigret and the Flemish Shop | 1932 | Description / Buy | |
28 | Maigret on the Riviera (Short Story) | 1932 | Description / Buy | |
29 | The Flemish House | 1932 | Description / Buy | |
30 | The Saint-Fiacre Affair | 1932 | Description / Buy | |
31 | Maigret Goes Home | 1932 | Description / Buy | |
32 | Maigret on Home Ground (Short Story) | 1932 | Description / Buy | |
33 | Lock No. 1 | 1933 | Description / Buy | |
34 | Maigret | 1934 | Description / Buy | |
35 | Maigret at the Coroner's | 1938 | Description / Buy | |
36 | Cécile is Dead | 1940 | Description / Buy | |
37 | The Judge's House | 1940 | Description / Buy | |
38 | Maigret in Exile | 1940 | Description / Buy | |
39 | Maigret and the Spinster | 1940 | Description / Buy | |
40 | Maigret Bides His Time | 1940 | Description / Buy | |
41 | Maigret's Boyhood Friend | 1940 | Description / Buy | |
42 | Maigret and the Man on the Bench | 1940 | Description / Buy | |
43 | Maigret and the Toy Village (Short Story) | 1941 | Description / Buy | |
44 | The Cellars of the Majestic | 1942 | Description / Buy | |
45 | The Hotel Majestic | 1942 | Description / Buy | |
46 | Maigret and the Dead Girl | 1942 | Description / Buy | |
47 | Maigret's Rival | 1943 | Description / Buy | |
48 | Inspector Cadaver | 1943 | Description / Buy | |
49 | Signed, Picpus | 1944 | Description / Buy | |
50 | Maigret and the Fortuneteller (Short Story) | 1944 | Description / Buy | |
51 | Félicie | 1944 | Description / Buy | |
52 | Maigret Loses His Temper | 1945 | Description / Buy | |
53 | Maigret Gets Angry | 1945 | Description / Buy | |
54 | Maigret in New York | 1946 | Description / Buy | |
55 | Maigret's Holiday | 1947 | Description / Buy | |
56 | Maigret's Dead Man | 1947 | Description / Buy | |
57 | Maigret's First Case | 1948 | Description / Buy | |
58 | My Friend Maigret | 1949 | Description / Buy | |
59 | Maigret and the Old Lady | 1949 | Description / Buy | |
60 | The Friend of Madame Maigret | 1950 | Description / Buy | |
61 | Madame Maigret's Friend | 1950 | Description / Buy | |
62 | Madame Maigret's Own Case | 1950 | Description / Buy | |
63 | Maigret and the Burglar's Wife | 1951 | Description / Buy | |
64 | Maigret's Memoirs | 1951 | Description / Buy | |
65 | Maigret in Montmartre | 1951 | Description / Buy | |
66 | Maigret and the Gangsters | 1951 | Description / Buy | |
67 | Maigret Takes a Room | 1951 | Description / Buy | |
68 | Maigret and the Tall Woman | 1951 | Description / Buy | |
69 | Maigret at Picratt's | 1951 | Description / Buy | |
70 | Maigret Sits it Out | 1952 | Description / Buy | |
71 | Maigret Afraid | 1953 | Description / Buy | |
72 | Maigret's Mistake | 1953 | Description / Buy | |
73 | Maigret and the Calame Report | 1954 | Description / Buy | |
74 | Maigret Goes to School | 1954 | Description / Buy | |
75 | Maigret and the Minister | 1954 | Description / Buy | |
76 | Maigret and the Headless Corpse | 1955 | Description / Buy | |
77 | Maigret in New York's Underworld (Short Story) | 1955 | Description / Buy | |
78 | Maigret Sets a Trap | 1955 | Description / Buy | |
79 | Maigret's Failure | 1956 | Description / Buy | |
80 | Maigret and the Millionaires | 1957 | Description / Buy | |
81 | Maigret and the Reluctant Witnesses | 1958 | Description / Buy | |
82 | Maigret Has Scruples | 1958 | Description / Buy | |
83 | Maigret Has Doubts | 1959 | Description / Buy | |
84 | No Vacation for Maigret | 1959 | Description / Buy | |
85 | Maigret in Court | 1960 | Description / Buy | |
86 | None of Maigret's Business | 1960 | Description / Buy | |
87 | Maigret and the Idle Burglar | 1961 | Description / Buy | |
88 | Maigret and the Saturday Caller (Short Story) | 1962 | Description / Buy | |
89 | Maigret and the Black Sheep | 1962 | Description / Buy | |
90 | Maigret and the Bum | 1963 | Description / Buy | |
91 | Maigret and the Apparition | 1964 | Description / Buy | |
92 | Maigret on the Defensive (Short Story) | 1964 | Description / Buy | |
93 | Maigret Mystified | 1964 | Description / Buy | |
94 | Maigret In Society (Short Story) | 1965 | Description / Buy | |
95 | Maigret and the Nahour Case | 1966 | Description / Buy | |
96 | Maigret and the Pickpocket | 1967 | Description / Buy | |
97 | Maigret in Vichy | 1968 | Description / Buy | |
98 | Maigret Hesitates | 1968 | Description / Buy | |
99 | Maigret and the Killer | 1969 | Description / Buy | |
100 | Maigret and the Madwoman | 1970 | Description / Buy | |
101 | Maigret and the Wine Merchant | 1970 | Description / Buy | |
102 | Maigret's Revolver | 1971 | Description / Buy | |
103 | Maigret and the Informer | 1971 | Description / Buy | |
104 | Maigret and Monsieur Charles | 1972 | Description / Buy | |
105 | Maigret and the Loner | 1983 | Description / Buy | |
106 | Maigret Enjoys Himself | 2017 | Description / Buy | |
107 | Maigret Travels | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
108 | Maigret's Secret | 2018 | Description / Buy | |
109 | Maigret and the Old People | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
110 | Maigret's Patience | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
111 | Maigret and the Good People of Montparnasse | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
112 | Maigret's Anger | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
113 | Maigret and the Tramp | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
114 | Maigret and the Ghost | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
115 | Maigret Defends Himself | 2019 | Description / Buy | |
116 | Maigret's Childhood Friend | 2020 | Description / Buy |
Order of Inspector Maigret Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Maigret's Pipe: Seventeen Stories | 1945 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Maigret's Christmas | 1976 | Description / Buy |
Order of Inspector Maigret Short Story Collections
# | Read | Title | Published | Details |
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1 | Maigret's Pipe: Seventeen Stories | 1945 | Description / Buy | |
2 | Maigret's Christmas | 1976 | Description / Buy |
Jude Amedee Francois Maigret otherwise known as Jules Maigret or simply Maigret to close friends and colleagues is a fictional commissaire and detective of the Paris Brigade Criminelle. Loosely based on the character of Chief Inspector Marcel Guillaume, a longtime friend of Simenone and regarded as one of the best detectives of his time, Commissaire Maigret is a huge man with broad shoulders, fair, and patient though a little gruff.
The first novel in the series, Pietr the Latvian introduces the chief protagonist of the novels, who is on a quest to locate a mysterious character that goes by the name Pietr the Latvian. After police notify the Commisssaire that a leader of an infamous Baltic gang and an international fraudster, Peter the Lett was on his way to Paris, the detective sets out to investigate the man. With only a description to go on, he successfully locates a man matching the description at the Gare du Nord, only to be called away to a train carriage where there is a body matching the description of Pietr.
Following the first man to a hotel, he soon identifies himself as an American executive Oswald Oppenheim who is in town to meet Mortimer Levington his wife. Everything goes haywire when a series of men matching the description ranging from an itinerant Russian, to a Norwegian sea captain come into Maigret’s radar. Just who is this Pietr the Latvian?
INSPECTOR MAIGRET BOOKS INTO TV/MOVIES
The very popular series of novels has been made into several movies and TV series over the years. The series of novels was made into a TV series in 1960 named Maigret. Running for 52 episodes between 1960 and 1963, the BBC produced series starred Rupert Davies in the lead role of Commissaire Maigret. The novels were also adapted into a TV miniseries of 12 episodes by ITV in 1992. Unlike the 1960 series, the ITV version uses material from 12 novels out of the 28 short stories and 75 novels in the Inspector Maigret series. The series has two movie adaptations to its name: Maigret’s Dead Man, and Maigret Sets a Trap. Both novels came out in 2016 and starred Rowan Atkinson in the lead role of Inspector Maigret.
BEST INSPECTOR MAIGRET BOOKS
Maigret Sets A Trap: The 1955 published novel Maigret Sets a Trap, is one of the most highly regarded novels in the series. In fact, it was so popular that it made into a movie by the same name in 2016. The series follows Inspector Maigret, who is devising a plan to arrest a serial killer by trapping him with his perverse vanity. A lucky break leads him to three suspects, which provides an unexpected twist. The unraveling of the dark web of possessiveness and guilt is so dark that it nearly exhausts the veteran detective.
The Cellars of the Majectic: The 21st novel in the Inspector Maigret series of novels, The Cellars of the Majestic is another highly regarded novel. After his exile from Paris, Maigret is now living in a small seemingly tranquil town on the French Coast. From his hotel room the inspector sees a sprightly man emerge from a doorway look around cautiously before disappearing back into his room. He appears moments later bent over and dragging a long mass that could have been a dead body. Though it is none of his business, the inspector just cannot help himself and follows the stranger.
The Madman of Bergerac: The sixteenth novel in the series is one of the most exciting of novels in the series. Maigret is going on vacation to Dorgone, when he has the ill luck of sitting next to an agitated traveling companion who spends most of the time sobbing and sighing. But when the strange man jumps off the train on a dark night, it is up to the inspector to find him before he harms himself or the citizens of Bergerac.
OTHER BOOK SERIES YOU MAY LIKE
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What Is The Next Book in The Inspector Maigret Series?
There doesn't seem to be an upcoming book in The Inspector Maigret Series. The newest book is Maigret's Childhood Friend and was released on March, 3rd 2020.