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Maurice denham played chief inspector maigret in a series of halfhour dramatizations of the novels on bbc radio 4 from 1992 to 2002, with michael gough playing georges simenon. Georges simenon was born at liege in belgium in 1903. Georges simenon ebooks epub and pdf downloads ebookmall. Publication date 19760821 topics bbc radio drama, crime drama language. A chronological english checklist of the 75 novels, with variant titles and year of original french publication click on the. In lock 14, simenon plunges maigret into the unfamiliar canal world of shabby bars and shadowy towpaths, drawing together the strands of a tragic case of lost identity. The crime at lock 14 31 the strange case of peter the lett 31 the crime of inspector maigret 31 the crossroads murders 31 a face for a clue 31 aka the yellow dog 14 the sailors rendezvous 31 death of a harbormaster 32 the flemish shop 32 maigret and the tavern by the seine 32. Maigret goes to school by simenon, georges paperback book the cheap fast free. One of simenons first maigret tales is lock 14 and is reissued in a translation by.
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