It’s not the number of books Simenon wrote that is impressive. It’s their consistent quality. The writing method was as extraordinary as the books. A Maigret novel came on Simenon like an illness: he ...

Maigret Season 2 premieres October 18 on Masterpiece PBS, with a new first look teasing higher stakes for Benjamin Wainwright ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There have been few writers as prolifically désengagé as Georges Simenon, the author of nearly two hundred absorbing, intensely ...

Paddy Kehoe surveys the best of Georges Simenon, and looks at two further issues in the mammoth 75-book Penguin paperback series of Maigret novels in translation. The celebrated writer Georges Simenon ...

Georges Simenon was a phenomenon, a hack who became a great writer. The reverse is more common. We can all think of authors who started with high literary ambitions and ended by writing commercially ...

The idea of Inspector Maigret came to Georges Simenon one afternoon in a cafe after a few glasses of schnapps. As the day progressed, he added the character's various accessories: the pipe, the bowler ...

Colin Callender’s Playground and Red Arrow Studios International are joining forces to co-develop a premium English-language returning drama series based on Georges Simenon’s classic Inspector Maigret ...

Where do popular novelists go when they die? Harold Robbins, author of The Carpetbaggers and A Stone for Danny Fisher, sold 750 million books during his lifetime, but 13 years after his death his ...

Concluding our look at the Inspector Maigret mysteries, the author’s son joined us to field your questions about his father’s career Well, it looks like we've overextended our time, so bye for now and ...