Georges Simenon
Georges Simenon (1903-1989) was a prolific Belgian writer, best known for his 75 novels featuring Jules Maigret, a commissaire in the Paris police force. Since 2013, Penguin has been publishing new translations of all of them.
Books by Georges Simenon
Maigret and the Dead Girl
by Georges Simenon
Now out in a movie with Gerard Depardieu as the French police inspector, Maigret and the Dead Girl is a good place to start with this classic European detective series by the Belgian writer Georges Simenon (1903-1989). Simenon wrote around 75 Maigret novels, so the quality tends to vary. These are realistic novels, in that they're not selling escapism and you do feel like you're in Paris in the 1950s, going around with Maigret as he deals with often sad lives and even sadder crimes.
Maigret and the Headless Corpse
by Georges Simenon
Maigret and the Headless Corpse (1955) by Georges Simenon is set in the Quai de Valmy in Paris, and kicks off when parts of a corpse are found in the propeller of a barge. Much of the investigation takes place in bars and bistros in the area, with Detective Chief Inspector Maigret drinking a glass of wine shortly after arriving at the scene of the crime, even though it's first thing in the morning.
Interviews where books by Georges Simenon were recommended
Books Made into Movies in 2023, recommended by Five Books Interviews
As filmmakers continue to turn to books to inspire new movies, we’ve put together a list of books that have been recommended on Five Books that have appeared on the screen this year or are currently in production. Notable are the number of nonfiction books being turned into movies, an indication of how many books are currently being published that tell compelling stories that happen, also, to be true.
